New Features
This is the initial public beta release of Amazon CloudWatch. Please see the Amazon CloudWatch page at http://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch for details.
Known Issues
| Issue | Description | Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon CloudWatch is a feature of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). | You must be signed up for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service in order to call the Amazon CloudWatch APIs. |
| 2 | Load balancer metrics can only be aggregated across 2 dimensions. | You can retrieve per-availability zone Load Balancer metrics using GetMetricStatistics API by specifying 2 separate dimensions; LoadBalancerName and AvailabiltyZone. The ListMetrics API shows a single dimension of the form LoadBalancerName.AvailabilityZone to represent this multi-dimension aggregation. |
| 3 | SOAP requests over HTTP will result in the following error: Premature end of file. AWSRequestId:No request id received. | API requests using SOAP are only supported over HTTPS. |