AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional SAP-C01 – Question394

A user has configured an EC2 instance in the US-East-1a zone. The user has enabled detailed monitoring of the instance. The user is trying to get the data from CloudWatch using a CLI.
Which of the below mentioned CloudWatch endpoint URLs should the user use?

A. monitoring.us-east-1a.amazonaws.com
B. cloudwatch.us-east-1a.amazonaws.com
C. monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
D. monitoring.us-east-1-a.amazonaws.com

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation: The CloudWatch resources are always region specific and they will have the end point as region specific. If the user is trying to access the metric in the US-East-1 region, the endpoint URL will be: monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/r…