Because the metrics are measured inside Amazon EC2, users don’t have to install or maintain monitoring agents on ... The service maintains a detailed audit trail of all scaling operations ...

Monitoring allows you to make sure that the required patches are being applied to your Amazon EC2 instances according to the rules specified in your patch baseline. You can view the patch compliance ...

The AccelOps application uses this detailed system data for real-time alerting, and it is stored in a database to satisfy compliance requirements or for future forensic analysis. "Amazon EC2 cloud ...