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Amazon CloudWatch vs SolarWinds Incident Response

See how their public offers line up before you choose your own position. Prices stay in the currency, billing schedule, and charged unit each vendor publishes.

Amazon CloudWatch

USD · US · source: aws.amazon.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Free Tier
Free

Free tier

Usage · monthly free allowances Standalone · Free
Pay as you go
USD 0.3 monthly

$0.30 per custom metric/month at the first paid tier in US East

Usage · per custom metric per month Standalone · Usage based

SolarWinds Incident Response

USD · US · source: www.solarwinds.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Pro
USD 15 / month with annual commitment

Starts at $15/user/month billed annually

Seat · per user per month billed annually Standalone · Starting at
Premium Highlighted
USD 24 / month with annual commitment

Starts at $24/user/month billed annually

Seat · per user per month billed annually Standalone · Starting at
Enterprise
Contact sales

Custom pricing

Flat · published subscription Standalone · Contact sales

What each plan includes

Feature names follow each vendor’s own pricing page, so verify the wording before treating them as exact equivalents.

Amazon CloudWatch

Free Tier

Plan card

Logs

5 GB

Included

Plan card

Custom metrics

10

Included

Plan card

Custom dashboards

3

Included

Pay as you go

Plan card

Live Tail overage

$0.01/minute

Included

Plan card

OpenTelemetry metrics ingest

$0.50/GB

Included

Plan card

Volume-tiered usage pricing

Included

SolarWinds Incident Response

Pro

Official plan card

Schedules and escalations

Included

Official plan card

Basic event intelligence

Included

Official plan card

Postmortems and automation rules

Included

Premium

Official plan card

Advanced escalations

Included

Official plan card

Runbooks and workflows

Included

Official plan card

Status pages and SLO tracker

Included

Enterprise

Official plan card

Unlimited data retention

Included

Official plan card

AI incident grouping and summaries

Included

Official plan card

ServiceNow sync

Included

How their prices changed

Each dated row shows the public prices observed when that vendor’s pricing page changed.

Amazon CloudWatch

  1. Source
    • Free Tier: Free
    • Pay as you go: USD 0.3 monthly

SolarWinds Incident Response

  1. Source
    • Pro: USD 15 / month with annual commitment
    • Premium: USD 24 / month with annual commitment
    • Enterprise: Contact sales