resources running in your environment will send metrics to Amazon Cloudwatch in five minute intervals - Health check every 10 sec - System status check & Instance status check - Common issues: incorrect network configuration, corrupt file systems, exhausted memory, and incompatible kernel - Advanced Health Reporting - Messages: OK, Warning, Degraded, Pending, Unknown, Suspended - the health agent probes the instance at a deeper level and more frequently over Cloudwatch than the basic