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Amazon CloudWatch

byAmazon Web Services (AWS)
in
4.5
Market Presence: Observability Platforms, Infrastructure Monitoring Tools

Overview

Product Information on Amazon CloudWatch

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch is a software designed for monitoring and managing cloud resources and applications within Amazon Web Services environments. The software collects and tracks metrics, logs, and events, providing visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health. Amazon CloudWatch enables automated responses to changes in infrastructure and supports alerting and dashboard creation for real-time monitoring. The software assists businesses by helping identify operational issues, analyze trends, set alarms for specific thresholds, and automate resource scaling based on performance metrics, thereby supporting efficient infrastructure management and incident response in cloud deployments.

Amazon CloudWatch Pricing

Amazon CloudWatch software uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model, where charges are based on consumption of services such as metrics, logs, dashboards, alarms, and events. There are no up-front fees or required long-term commitments, and users are billed according to their actual usage for each supported feature within the software.

Overall experience with Amazon CloudWatch

Data Analyst
3B - 10B USD, Finance (non-banking)
FAVORABLE

“Integrated AWS monitoring simplifies setup but advanced tracing challenges remain”

4.0
May 30, 2026
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Manager, It Security And Risk Management
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“AWS CloudWatch stands out for its accurate alarms but has a steep learning curve”

3.0
Jan 29, 2026
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Updated 23rd December 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon CloudWatch Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(743 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
54%
4 Star
39%
3 Star
6%
2 Star
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1 Star
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  • Data Analyst
    1B-10B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Integrated AWS monitoring simplifies setup but advanced tracing challenges remain

    4.0
    May 30, 2026
    Amazon CloudWatch works well as a monitoring tool, especially if you are already using AWS services. It is easy to get started with and gives good visibility into metrics, logos, and alarms without needing much setup. What works well is how tightly it integrates with AWS services, you can quickly track resource usage, set alerts, and view logs in one place. It does the core job reliably. However, once things get more complex (large scale logging, deeper analysis, or cross service tracing), it starts to feel limited and sometimes feels harder to manage.
  • Data Analyst
    1B-10B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Integrated AWS monitoring simplifies setup but advanced tracing challenges remain

    4.0
    May 30, 2026
    Amazon CloudWatch works well as a monitoring tool, especially if you are already using AWS services. It is easy to get started with and gives good visibility into metrics, logos, and alarms without needing much setup. What works well is how tightly it integrates with AWS services, you can quickly track resource usage, set alerts, and view logs in one place. It does the core job reliably. However, once things get more complex (large scale logging, deeper analysis, or cross service tracing), it starts to feel limited and sometimes feels harder to manage.
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User Sentiment About Amazon CloudWatch
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Amazon CloudWatch Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. It has great AWS integration. It works out of the box with EC2, Lambda, RDS and other AWS services. 2. Metrics and alarms are simple to configure and reliable for basic monitoring. 3. Centralized logging through CloudWatch Logs makes it easy to track application issues 4. Dashboards are useful for quick visibility and Auto-scaling and alerting integration works well for operational use cases

Like

1. It has great AWS integration. It works out of the box with EC2, Lambda, RDS and other AWS services. 2. Metrics and alarms are simple to configure and reliable for basic monitoring. 3. Centralized logging through CloudWatch Logs makes it easy to track application issues 4. Dashboards are useful for quick visibility and Auto-scaling and alerting integration works well for operational use cases

Like

1. It has great AWS integration. It works out of the box with EC2, Lambda, RDS and other AWS services. 2. Metrics and alarms are simple to configure and reliable for basic monitoring. 3. Centralized logging through CloudWatch Logs makes it easy to track application issues 4. Dashboards are useful for quick visibility and Auto-scaling and alerting integration works well for operational use cases

Dislike

Areas for improvement include its steep learning curve, especially if you're unfamiliar with AWS and it's one of the first AWS products you've tested. We had a bad experience once with the service's cost; it was generating a lot of logs without us realizing it, and when the bill arrived, we learned to use it more carefully. This is something a company like AWS should address. Furthermore, after testing other solutions before and after, I find its interface very complex and difficult to understand. Compared to other AWS services, I don't know why this one wasn't developed in the same way.

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Dislike

Areas for improvement include its steep learning curve, especially if you're unfamiliar with AWS and it's one of the first AWS products you've tested. We had a bad experience once with the service's cost; it was generating a lot of logs without us realizing it, and when the bill arrived, we learned to use it more carefully. This is something a company like AWS should address. Furthermore, after testing other solutions before and after, I find its interface very complex and difficult to understand. Compared to other AWS services, I don't know why this one wasn't developed in the same way.

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Dislike

Areas for improvement include its steep learning curve, especially if you're unfamiliar with AWS and it's one of the first AWS products you've tested. We had a bad experience once with the service's cost; it was generating a lot of logs without us realizing it, and when the bill arrived, we learned to use it more carefully. This is something a company like AWS should address. Furthermore, after testing other solutions before and after, I find its interface very complex and difficult to understand. Compared to other AWS services, I don't know why this one wasn't developed in the same way.

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