Integration & Automation
Author: Mohamed Wali
Mohamed Wali is a cloud infrastructure architect for the AWS Professional Services–Global Telecom Practice team. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mohamed is a subject matter expert in cloud computing architecture. He helps customers accelerate cloud adoption, scale on AWS safely and securely, and unlock the value of their IT investments as they move to the cloud.
Reduce log-storage costs by automating retention settings in Amazon CloudWatch
Learn how to reduce log-storage costs by automating retention settings in Amazon CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch Logs stores log data indefinitely, which is helpful. But as AWS workload logging grows, so do your log-storage costs. To reduce costs, establish a log-retention policy and apply it across all your log groups, ideally automatically.