Amazon CloudWatch monitors and collects metrics for resources and applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in real time. Amazon CloudWatch is a metrics repository where you can put metrics into the repository and retrieve statistics based on those metrics.
You can use Amazon CloudWatch source to get statistics from the Amazon CloudWatch repository and write rules in RulePoint to monitor and process these statistics. The Amazon CloudWatch source in RulePoint reads the collected metrics from Amazon CloudWatch and publishes the metrics as events in RulePoint.
To connect, read, or write to Amazon CloudWatch, you must have a valid AWS account and subscribe for Amazon CloudWatch.