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A SysOps Administrator needs to create a single Amazon CloudWatch dashboard that displays CPU utilization metrics from Amazon EC2 instances running in both the us-east-1 and us-west-2 Regions. Which action should the administrator take to achieve this?

  1. Select the desired Region from the Region selector when adding the CPU utilization metrics to the dashboard widgets.Answer
  2. B
    Enable detailed monitoring on all EC2 instances to allow CloudWatch to aggregate metrics across different AWS Regions.
  3. C
    Configure an Amazon EventBridge rule in the us-west-2 Region to route the CPU utilization metrics to the us-east-1 Region.
  4. D
    Create a CloudWatch metric filter in us-west-2 to stream the metric logs to an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream in us-east-1.

Answer

Select the desired Region from the Region selector when adding the CPU utilization metrics to the dashboard widgets.
The correct option is to select the desired Region from the Region selector when configuring the metrics in the dashboard. CloudWatch dashboards support multi-region metric visualization natively, allowing administrators to combine metrics from different Regions on a single screen without complex configurations.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Open the Amazon CloudWatch console and create or open a dashboard.
The dashboard workspace is loaded.
To begin configuring widgets that will display the metrics.
2
Add a new widget (such as a line chart) and select the EC2 namespace.
The metric selection interface appears.
To browse and choose the specific CPU utilization metrics.
3
Use the Region drop-down selector within the metric selection screen to switch between us-east-1 and us-west-2, selecting the metrics from both Regions.
Metrics from both Regions are added to the single widget.
CloudWatch dashboards natively support displaying metrics from multiple AWS Regions in the same widget or dashboard by selecting the appropriate Region during metric configuration.

Key Concept

CloudWatch dashboards are global resources that can display metrics from multiple AWS Regions. You can select different Regions directly from the Region selector when adding metrics to dashboard widgets.
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CloudWatch Dashboards and Container Insights

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