Amazon CodeGuru Profiler Cheat Sheet

Amazon CodeGuru Profiler is a developer tool that helps you analyze and improve the performance of applications by continuously profiling and identifying performance bottlenecks, inefficient code, and resource-consuming operations. It provides insights into the runtime behavior of your application to optimize the CPU, memory, and overall application performance.

Features

• Performance Profiling: Continuously profiles your applications and provides performance metrics such as CPU usage, memory utilization, and time spent in different functions.

• Flame Graphs: Visual representation of how much time is spent in each function and how the functions relate to each other, helping developers spot hot spots in their code.

• Anomaly Detection: Identifies performance anomalies by comparing the application’s performance over time and raising alerts for abnormal behavior.

• Recommendations: Provides actionable recommendations based on profiling data to help optimize application performance and resource utilization.

• Integration with AWS Services: Easily integrates with other AWS services like CloudWatch, CodeBuild, and CodePipeline for automated performance monitoring and profiling.

Use Cases

• Identify areas of code where CPU or memory usage is high, allowing developers to optimize resource consumption.

• Helps reduce resource costs by pinpointing inefficient code or unnecessary resource usage, improving

• Useful for applications running at scale where performance degradation could occur gradually and without obvious signs, helping developers detect issues early.

• Profiler data can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines to monitor application performance automatically with every deployment.

Security

• Encryption: CodeGuru Profiler uses Amazon’s encryption protocols to ensure that profiling data is secure in transit and at rest.

• IAM Integration: Access control is managed through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to ensure that only authorized users and roles can view and modify the profiling data.

• Secure Data Storage: Data is stored securely in Amazon S3 buckets with appropriate access controls and is available only to the specified IAM users or roles.

• Fine-Grained Permissions: Allows configuring permissions at a granular level to control who can access and modify profiling data.

Pricing

• Amazon CodeGuru Profiler uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the number of profiling data points collected.

  • Free Tier: Includes up to 100 million monthly profiling data points at no charge.

  • Pricing: After the free tier, the cost is based on the number of profiling data points recorded and the regions used.

    • For example, pricing for 100 million profiling data points ranges from approximately $0.002 to $0.003 per data point, depending on the region.

References:

What is Amazon CodeGuru Profiler? – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

Optimize Code Performance – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler – Amazon Web Services

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