What best describes CloudWatch in AWS?

CloudWatch is best described as a monitoring and management tool within AWS. It provides comprehensive monitoring of AWS resources and applications, enabling users to collect metrics, logs, and events. With CloudWatch, you can visualize performance through dashboards and set alarms to get notified about specific thresholds or anomalies in your AWS environment.

The capability of CloudWatch to gather and track metrics from various AWS services helps ensure that systems operate within desired parameters, facilitating proactive management and troubleshooting of applications and services. Additionally, it offers automated scaling and resource optimization capabilities, enhancing operational efficiency and supporting DevOps practices.

The focus of CloudWatch on monitoring sets it apart from the other options. Content delivery networks, integration platforms, and database services serve different purposes: they aim to optimize content distribution, facilitate integration across services, and manage data storage respectively, but they do not provide the broad monitoring and management functionalities that CloudWatch does.