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Updated 13th October 2025
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Data Analyst
3B - 10B USD, Finance (non-banking)FAVORABLE
“Integrated AWS monitoring simplifies setup but advanced tracing challenges remain”
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.
Manager, It Security And Risk Management
<50M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“AWS CloudWatch stands out for its accurate alarms but has a steep learning curve”
In my opinion, AWS CloudWatch is a very powerful and stable service, which makes it a very reliable tool for monitoring production elements within our organization. Based on my experience, I've found that it works very well with real-time alerts. However, as an area for improvement, I would highlight that it's not easy to use, and even less so intuitivesomething that needs to be addressed.
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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.
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Public
Year Founded
2006
Head office location
Seattle, United States
Number of employees
10001+
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Integrated AWS monitoring simplifies setup but advanced tracing challenges remain
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. - Lead - Platform & Automation<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Reliable, native monitoring for AWS workloads with strong integration capabilities.
My overall experience with AWS CloudWatch is positive. We use CloudWatch to monitor our managed service platform hosted in the AWS cloud environment, starting with basic instance-level metrics such as CPU utilization and Network I/O etc. For detailed monitoring, we deployed CloudWatch Agent on target servers to enable monitoring of additional metrics including memory utilization, logs, traces, and process or service monitoring. We also use CloudWatch to monitor other AWS services such as storage, database, and load balancer etc as its out-of-the box capability. We have integrated CloudWatch with external tools/systems (like observability tools) to collect monitoring data, configured threshold-based alerts and automated incident creation in our ITSM platform. Overall, CloudWatch provides reliable monitoring capabilities that align well with AWS-based infrastructure requirements. - Web Developer And Data Analytics<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
CloudWatch Alarms and Logs Insights Simplify Service Monitoring and Issue Detection
I think Amazon CloudWatch is one of the best services provided by AWS because it is used to log our services data from AWS. We have a long experience with CloudWatch logs, and that is amazing because of the connection with all their own services, so it helps us so much to debug the issues as well - Manager, It Security And Risk Management<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
AWS CloudWatch stands out for its accurate alarms but has a steep learning curve
In my opinion, AWS CloudWatch is a very powerful and stable service, which makes it a very reliable tool for monitoring production elements within our organization. Based on my experience, I've found that it works very well with real-time alerts. However, as an area for improvement, I would highlight that it's not easy to use, and even less so intuitivesomething that needs to be addressed. - SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER50M-1B USDBankingReview Source
Efficient AWS Log Monitoring With Cloudwatch, Though Dashboard Features Are Limited
We needed to have a monitoring solution for our AWS deployed services and decided to use Cloudwatch as part of the monitoring stack.
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