Management and Governance
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics runs scheduled canaries that exercise application endpoints and user flows. For GenAI systems it verifies availability and bounded response properties from outside the production service process.
Key points
- Canaries use scripts and publish runs, screenshots, logs, and metrics
- Schedules provide continuous checks from configured Regions
- Artifacts can contain sensitive response content and need protected storage
When to use it
- Check that a chat API streams and returns cited output
- Detect a broken authentication or retrieval path before users report it
Exam tips
- Choose Synthetics for active probes and ordinary CloudWatch telemetry for real-user workload signals
- Use stable assertions instead of requiring one exact generative sentence