Setting up related services

You can assign metadata to your Amazon resources in the form of tags. Each tag is a label consisting of a user-defined key and value. Tags can help you manage, identify, organize, search for, and filter resources. You can create tags to categorize resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria.

You can use resource groups to organize your Amazon resources. Resource groups make it easier to manage, monitor, and automate tasks on many resources at one time.

Application Manager automatically imports all of your resource groups and lists them in the Custom applications category.

Amazon CloudFormation allows you to create and provision Amazon infrastructure deployments predictably and repeatedly. It helps you use Amazon Web Services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon Auto Scaling. With CloudFormation, you can build reliable, scalable, cost-effective applications in the cloud without worrying about creating and configuring the underlying Amazon infrastructure.

Application Manager automatically imports all of your Amazon CloudFormation resources and lists them in the Amazon CloudFormation stacks category. You can create CloudFormation stacks and templates in Application Manager. Stack and template changes are automatically synchronized between Application Manager and CloudFormation. You can also create applications in Application Manager and move stacks into them. This helps you view operations information for resources in your stacks in the context of an application. For pricing information, see Amazon CloudFormation Pricing.

Launch Wizard guides you through the process of sizing, configuring, and deploying Amazon resources for third-party applications without the need to manually identify and provision individual Amazon resources.

Application Manager automatically imports all of your Launch Wizard resources and lists them in the Launch Wizard category. For more information about Amazon Launch Wizard, see Getting started with Amazon Launch Wizard for SQL Server. Launch Wizard is available at no additional charge. You only pay for the Amazon resources that you provision to run your solution.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a highly scalable, fast container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage containers on a cluster. Your containers are defined in a task definition that you use to run individual tasks or tasks within a service.

Amazon EKS is a managed service that helps you to run Kubernetes on Amazon without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

Application Manager automatically imports all of your Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS infrastructure resources and lists them on the Container clusters tab. However, you can't manage or view operations information about your Amazon EKS pods or containers in Application Manager. You can only manage and view operations information about the infrastructure that is hosting your Amazon EKS resources. For pricing information, see Amazon ECS Pricing and Amazon EKS Pricing.

You can remediate issues with Amazon resources from Application Manager by using Systems Manager Automation runbooks. To use this remediation capability, you must configure or verify permissions. For pricing information, see Amazon Systems Manager Pricing.

Amazon Cost Explorer is a feature of Amazon Cost Management that you can use to visualize your cost data for further analysis. When you enable Cost Explorer, you can view cost information, cost history, and cost optimization for your application's resources in the Application Manager console.

CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service that provides data and actionable insights for Amazon, hybrid, and multicloud applications and infrastructure resources. With CloudWatch, you can collect and access all your performance and operational data in the form of logs and metrics from a single platform. To view CloudWatch logs and alarms for your resources in Application Manager, you must set up and configure CloudWatch. For pricing information, see CloudWatch Pricing.

Amazon Config provides a detailed view of the resources associated with your Amazon Web Services account, including how they're configured, how they're related to one another, and how the configurations and their relationships have changed over time. You can use Amazon Config to evaluate the configuration settings of your Amazon resources. You do this by creating Amazon Config rules, which represent your ideal configuration settings. While Amazon Config continually tracks the configuration changes that occur among your resources, it checks whether these changes violate any of the conditions in your rules. If a resource violates a rule, Amazon Config flags the resource and the rule as noncompliant. Application Manager displays compliance information about Amazon Config rules. To view this data in Application Manager, you must set up and configure Amazon Config. For pricing information, see Amazon Config Pricing.

You can use Systems Manager State Manager to create a configuration that you assign to your managed nodes. The configuration, called an association, defines the state that you want to maintain on your nodes. To view association compliance data in Application Manager, you must configure one or more State Manager associations. State Manager is offered at no additional charge.

You can view operational work items (OpsItems) about your resources in Application Manager by using OpsCenter. You can configure Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EventBridge to automatically send OpsItems to OpsCenter based on alarms and events. You can also enter OpsItems manually. For pricing information, see Amazon Systems Manager Pricing.