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Which AWS service collects detailed application + system logs from EC2 instances, on-prem servers, and containers into CloudWatch Logs?
AAmazon Polly
BThe CloudWatch agent (CWAgent)
CAWS X-Ray
DAWS Snowball
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The CloudWatch agent (CWAgent)
The CloudWatch agent collects system metrics + log files from compute hosts. X-Ray is for distributed tracing; Snowball is offline data transfer; Polly is text-to-speech.
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