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 **Deploy Elasticache Slowlog to Datadog lambda function to AWS account**
 
 This terraform module deploys [elasticache-slowlog-to-datadog](https://github.com/scribd/elasticache-slowlog-to-datadog)
-to AWS to submit Elasticache slowlog entries. 
+to AWS so that slowlog entry metrics can be submitted to Datadog. 
 
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