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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
Small business, Mid-market, and Enterprise

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

We check this pricing page weekly and record the changes we observe. An older date can simply mean the public page has not changed.

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
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