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Category: Amazon CloudWatch

Enhance your global network performance: A deep dive into Internet Monitor’s new optimization tools

Overview The Internet Monitor feature of Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring now includes enhanced traffic optimization recommendation guidance that you can use to explore how to help optimize your application’s latency by using different AWS Regions or Local Zones, or by using Amazon CloudFront. You can also learn how to reduce latency by routing specific IP […]

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Getting started with Amazon Q Developer operational investigations

This blog post will guide you through a quick start on using Amazon Q Developer for operational investigations on AWS. We’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up this powerful AI-assisted troubleshooting tool . You’ll discover how to configure user permissions, manage data access, set up encryption, and start your first investigation. We […]

How Cigna Implemented a Multi-Region Centralized Alerting System on AWS

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

Support for Amazon CloudWatch Evidently ending soon

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue CloudWatch Evidently, effective 10/17/2025. Active customers will be able to use the service as normal until 10/17/2025, when support for the service will end. During this period, we will continue to provide critical security patches, but will no longer support any limit increase requests. On […]

Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch

With an ever-growing volume of custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, customers often find it difficult to understand and manage their spend on this service. One of the most common questions they have is how to identify which metrics contribute the most to their spend in CloudWatch. This blog post introduces a solution that lets you […]

Enhanced dashboard, latency suggestions in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, tailored to your specific workload footprint on AWS. With Internet Monitor, you can get insights into average internet performance metrics over time, as well as get alerts for issues (health events). You’re notified about events that impact your end […]

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Managing access to AWS accounts from Microsoft Teams and Slack at scale using AWS Organizations and AWS Chatbot

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]

How Amazon CloudWatch Logs Data Protection can help detect and protect sensitive log data

Customer applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) often require handling sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). As a result, sensitive log data can be intentionally or unintentionally logged as part of an application’s observability data. While comprehensive logging is important for application troubleshooting, monitoring and forensics, any […]

Using Generative AI to Gain Insights into CloudWatch Logs

Have you ever been investigating a problem and opened up a log file and thought “I have no idea what I am looking at. If only I could get a summary of the data.” Observability and log data play an important role in maintaining operational excellence and ensuring the reliability of your applications and services. […]