I love valuable metric data and I wanted to see what’s offered from different cloud providers.  Metrics are data and data ensures that when performance is impacted, we have the information we need to answer questions and resolve issues. For my first adventure, we’ll start with a high level review of Amazon.  Cloudwatch is one of the main tools to inspect the workload on instances in EC2, using the AWS Trial while Swingbench runs the Sales History workload. There is additional charges for this feature, but it’s pretty minimal per instance vs. other tools, so I’ll talk about the basics…