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Amazon CloudWatch pricing

Hosted AWS monitoring and observability for infrastructure metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alarms, real-user data, synthetic tests, network visibility, and cross-account telemetry.

Region
US
Source currency
USD
Audiences
Enterprise, Mid-market, and Small business

Plans and public prices

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

What each plan includes

Feature names follow Amazon CloudWatch’s own pricing page. Check the wording before treating features from different vendors as like-for-like.

Free Tier

Plan card

Logs

5 GB

Included
Custom metrics

10

Included
Custom dashboards

3

Included

Pay as you go

Plan card

Live Tail overage

$0.01/minute

Included
OpenTelemetry metrics ingest

$0.50/GB

Included
Volume-tiered usage pricing
Included

How pricing changed

Each date shows when a public price was observed, not when it took effect. Archived captures may reflect the region or currency served at the time, so a currency change is not necessarily a price increase.

Observed Plans and prices Source wording Source
  • Free Tier: Free
  • Pay as you go: USD 0.3 monthly
  • Free tier
  • $0.30 per custom metric/month at the first paid tier in US East