AWS Cloudwatch cloudwatch allows to take a peek into your aws applications, their logs and other metrices. Apart from the centralized logging (kibana,loggly) where we limit retention duration (cost factor), cloudwatch provides a way to do pay-per-volume query operations. AWS CLI installation on mac configuration aws configure Setting up AWS keys Although cloudwatch comes with a nice GUI, we can leverage CLI to automate and ease up some tasks. Here is a use case for filtering logs and downloading them for further analysis.

Accessing gcp compute instances via gcloud sdk You have a bunch of options to ‘ssh’ into gcp VM instances: open in browser window open in browser window on custom port open in browser window using provided ssh key another ssh client (putty, termius, etc) I personally find the ‘gcloud sdk’ way much more convenient to use since I can just launch it from my terminal without having to open the browser, log into cloud console, locate the vm instance and then ssh’ing into it.