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Amazon CloudWatch vs Uptime.com

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

USD · US · source: uptime.com

Plan Pricing Charged by Offer type
Website Monitoring
USD 9 monthly · USD 9 / month with annual commitment

Starting at $9/month; $108/year

Flat · published offer Standalone · Starting at

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

Uptime.com

Website Monitoring

Plan card

Uptime monitoring

0

Limited

Plan card

Transaction monitoring

1

Limited

Plan card

Unlimited users

2

Limited

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

Uptime.com

  1. Source
    • Website Monitoring: USD 9 monthly · USD 9 / month with annual commitment