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Free tier
You can get started with Amazon CloudWatch for free. Most AWS Services (EC2, S3, Kinesis, etc.) send metrics
automatically for free to CloudWatch. Many applications should be able to operate within these free tier
limits. You can learn more about AWS Free Tier here.
Basic Monitoring Metrics (Metrics sent from AWS Services by default)
10 Metrics (of Custom Metrics and Detailed Monitoring Metrics)

Metrics
1 Million API requests (not including GetMetricData, GetInsightRuleReport and
GetMetricWidgetImage: these 3 operations are always charged)
3 Custom Dashboards referencing up to 50 metrics each per month. Additionally, all

Dashboard
Automatic Dashboards are free.
10 Alarm metrics (only applicable to Standard resolution alarms that list metrics directly and
Alarms
don’t use a Metrics Insights query)
5 GB Data (ingestion, archive storage, and data scanned by Logs Insights queries)
Logs
1,800 minutes of Live Tail usage per month (approximately an hour per day)
Events All events except custom events are included
Contributor 1 Contributor Insights rule per month
Insights
The first 1 million log events that match the rule per month
Application
100 million Application Signals per month during Preview  
Signals

Synthetics 100 canary runs per month
First time free trial includes 3 million Evidently events and 10 million Evidently analysis units
Evidently
per account
RUM First time free trial includes 1 million RUM events per account
Paid tier
There is no upfront commitment or minimum fee. You simply pay for what you use and will be charged at the
end of the month for your usage.
Note: Pricing varies by Region. Estimate your monthly bill using the AWS Pricing Calculator.
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CloudWatch Container Insights ingests performance events as CloudWatch Logs that automatically
create CloudWatch metrics. These performance events are analyzed using CloudWatch Logs Insights
queries and are automatically executed as part of some Container Insights automated dashboards (e.g.,
task/pod, service, node, namespace). Please see the Container Insights documentation for details on
the type of performance events ingested and queried.
Manage Logs Price
Collect (Data Ingestion)
‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Standard $0.50 per GB
‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Infrequent Access $0.25 per GB
Store (Archival) $0.03 per GB
Analyze (Logs Insights queries) $0.005 per GB of data scanned
Detect and Mask (Data Protection) $0.12 per GB of data scanned
Analyze (Live Tail) $0.01 per minute
Vended Logs
Vended logs are specific AWS service logs natively published by AWS services on behalf of the customer
and available at volume discount pricing. Supported service logs include the below that are delivered to
CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. JSON formatted Vended Logs can be
delivered to one or more of the following destinations: CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon
Kinesis Data Firehose. VPC Flow Logs can optionally be delivered to Amazon S3 in an Apache Parquet
format.
Delivery to CloudWatch Logs: Available for Amazon VPC flow logs, Amazon Route 53 public DNS
query logs, Amazon Route 53 Resolver query logs, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis logs, API Gateway
Access logs, AWS Step Functions Express and Standard logs, Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) logs,
Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs, AWS Network Firewall alert and flow logs, Storage Gateway File
Audit and Health logs, Chime media quality metrics and Session Initiation Protocol message logs,
Evidently logs, SageMaker logs, AWS Elemental MediaTailor logs, Amazon EKS Control Plane Logs
Delivery to S3: Available for VPC flow logs, AWS Global Accelerator flow logs, Route 53 Resolver query
logs, EC2 Spot Instance logs, Evidently logs, MSK logs, AWS Network Firewall alert and flow logs, WAF
logs
Delivery to Kinesis Data Firehose: Available for MSK logs, Route 53 Resolver query logs, ElastiCache
for Redis logs, Evidently logs, VPC Flow Logs. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has ingestion and
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Example 1 - EC2 Detailed Monitoring 
The number of metrics sent by your EC2 instance as detailed monitoring is dependent on the
EC2 instance type. This example assumes 7 metrics.
If your application runs on 5 Amazon EC2 instances 24x7 for a 30-day month, and you enable
EC2 Detailed Monitoring on all instances, your charges would be as follows:
Total number of metrics = 7 metrics per instance * 5 instances = 35 metrics
Monthly CloudWatch Metrics Charges @$0.30 per custom metric = 35 * $0.30 = $10.50
Monthly CloudWatch charges = $10.5 per month
Once you exceed 10,000 total metrics then volume pricing tiers will apply - see metrics pricing
table for details.
Example 2 - Cross-account observability 
If you have an application that receives 2,000 incoming requests per hour and you’re using a
10% sampling rate, then your traces recorded in your source account X will be:
Traces Recorded per Month = 2,000 requests per hour x 24 hours x 31 days x 10% = 148,800
traces
Billable Traces Recorded per Month = 148,800 traces - 100,000 traces in free tier = 48,800
traces
Monthly Traces Recorded Bill = 48,800 traces * $0.000005 = $0.244
If you share your traces from your source account X with a monitoring account Y using cross-
account observability, this will create a copy of your traces on monitoring account Y which will
come with no extra cost on your bill. So your monthly bill will be:
Monthly traces recorded bill on source account X = $0.244

Monthly traces recorded bill on monitoring account Y = $0
If you want to share the same traces from source account X with a second monitoring account,
let’s say monitoring account Z, this will create an additional copy of your traces. In this case
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Monthly traces recorded bill on source account X = $0.244 +

148,800 second trace copy on monitoring account Z * $0.000005 = $0.244 + $0.744 = $0.988
Monthly traces recorded bill on monitoring account Y = $0
Monthly traces recorded bill on monitoring account Z = $0
Example 3 - Custom metrics 
If your application runs on 51,000 Amazon EC2 instances 24x7 for a 30-day month, and you
published 5 custom metrics via the PutMetricData API, your charges would be as follows:
Total number of metrics = 5 metrics per instance * 51,000 instances = 255,000 metrics
First 10,000 custom metrics @$0.30 per metric = 10,000 * $0.30 = $3,000
10,001 to 250,000 custom metrics @$0.10 per metric = 240,000 * $0.10 = $24,000
250,001 to 255,000 custom metrics @0.05 per metric = 5000 * $0.05 = $250
Monthly CloudWatch custom metrics charges = $3000 + $24000 + $250 = $27,250 per month
Total number of API requests = 51,000 instances * (43,200 minutes/5 minutes) = 440,640,000
requests
First 1,000,000 API requests = $0
1,000,001 to 440,640,000 API requests = 439,640,000/1,000 * $0.01 = $4,396.40
Monthly CloudWatch charges = $27,250 + $4,396.40 = $31,646.40 per month
Example 4 - S3 Replication metrics 
If your S3 bucket has 5 replication rules enabled with S3 Metrics and Notifications enabled or
S3 Replication Time Control (RTC) for each rule, you charges will be as follows:
Total number of replication metrics = 4 metrics per replication rule * 5 replication rules = 20
replication metrics
First 10,000 custom metrics at $0.30 per metric = 20 * $0.30 = $6.00
(Note: For S3 Replication metrics you are not charged for API requests)
Example 5 - Monitoring with logs 
If you are monitoring HTTP 2xx, 3xx & 4xx response codes using web application access logs
24x7 for one 30-day month, by sending 1GB per day of ingested log data, monitoring for HTTP  
responses, and archiving the data for one month, your charges would be as follows:
Monthly Ingested Log Charges
Total log data ingested = 1GB * 30 days = 30GB
0 to 5GB = $0
5 to 30GB = $0.50 * 25 = $12.50
Monthly Monitoring Charges

3 CloudWatch Metrics @$0 = 3 * $0 = $0
Monthly Archived Log Charges (assume log data compresses to 6GB)

0 to 5GB = $0
5GB to 6GB = $0.03 * 1 = $0.03
Monthly CloudWatch Charges = $12.50 + $0 + $0.03 = $12.53
Example 6 - Analyzing logs with Live Tail 
You get 1,800 minutes of Live Tail session usage per month with the AWS Free Tier, after which
you pay $0.01 per minute.
If you are using Live Tail to explore and analyze your logs in real time for 1,000 minutes in one
month, your monthly cost would be as follows:
Monthly Live Tail usage charges

Total Live Tail usage in minutes = 1,000
0 to 1,000 minutes = $0
Monthly Live Tail charges = $0
If you are using Live Tail to explore and analyze your logs in real-time for 20,000 minutes in
one month, your monthly cost would be as follows:
Monthly Live Tail usage charges

Total Live Tail usage in minutes = 20,000
0 to 1,800 minutes = $0
1,801 to 20,000 minutes = $0.01 * 18,200 = $182
Monthly Live Tail charges = $182
Example 7 – Monitoring VPC flow logs delivered to CloudWatch logs 
If you are monitoring VPCs that send 72TB of ingested VPC flow logs to CloudWatch logs per
month and archiving the data for one month, your charges would be as follows:  
Monthly log ingestion charges
0 to 10TB @$0.50 per GB = 10 * 1,024 * $0.50 = $5,120.00
10TB to 30TB @$0.25 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.25 = $5,120.00
30TB to 50TB @$0.10 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.10 = $2,048.00
50TB to 72TB @$0.05 per GB = 22 * 1024 * $0.05 = $1,126.40
Total Ingestion Charges = $5,120 + $5,120 + $2,048 + $1126.40 = $13,414.40
Monthly log archival charges (assume log data compresses to 30TB)

30TB @ $0.03 per GB = 30 * 1024 * 0.03 = $921.6
Monthly CloudWatch Charges = $13,414.40 + $921.6 = $14,336
Note: Volume tiers reset at the start of every month
Example 8 - Monitoring VPC flow logs delivered to S3 
If you are monitoring VPCs that send 72TB of ingested VPC flow logs in the optional Apache
Parquet format directly to S3 per month and archiving the data for one month, your charges
would be as follows:
Monthly log ingestion charges

0 to 10TB @$0.25 per GB = 10 * 1,024 * $0.25 = $2,560.00
10TB to 30TB @$0.15 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.15 = $3,072.00
30TB to 50TB @$0.075 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.075 = $1,536.00
50TB to 72TB @$0.05 per GB = 22 * 1024 * $0.05 = $1,126.40
Total Ingestion Charges = $2,560 + $3,072 + $1,536 + $1126.40 = $8,294.40
Monthly Apache Parquet format conversion charges (optional)

72TB @$0.03 per GB = 72 * 1,024 * $0.03 = $2,211.84
Monthly log archival charges (assume log data compresses to 6.5TB)* *

6.5TB @ $0.023 per GB = 6.5 * 1024 * 0.023 = $153.01
Monthly charges = $8,294.40 + $153.01 + $2,211.84 = $10,659.25
Example 9 - Detecting and masking sensitive log data with Data

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Protection
In this scenario, you are enabling ongoing data protection for a log group that collects 1 GB of
log data per day from a payment processing application.  
Monthly ingested log charges
Total log data ingested = 1 GB * 30 days = 30 GB
Charges for log data ingestion (0 to 5 GB): = $0
Charges for log data ingestion (5 to 30 GB) = $0.50 * 25 = $12.50
Data protection charges for scanning, detecting, and masking sensitive data
Total log data scanned with data protection = 1 GB * 30 days = 30 GB
Charges for log data scanned = $0.12 per GB * 30 GB = $3.60
Monthly archived log charges (assume log data compresses to 6 GB)

Charges for 0 to 5 GB = $0
Charges for 5 GB to 6 GB = $0.03 * 1 GB = $0.03
Monthly CloudWatch charges = $12.50 + $3.60 + $0.03 = $16.13
Example 10 - Monitoring VPC flow logs with Amazon Kinesis Data

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Firehose
The example considers pricing region as US East (N. Virginia). If you are monitoring VPCs that
send 72TB of ingested VPC flow logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose per month, your
charges would be as follows:
Monthly log delivery charges

0 to 10TB @$0.25 per GB = 10 * 1,024 * $0.25 = $2,560.00
10TB to 30TB @$0.15 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.15 = $3,072.00
30TB to 50TB @$0.075 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.075 = $1,536.00

50TB to 72TB @$0.05 per GB = 22 * 1024 * $0.05 = $1,126.40
Total delivery charges = $2,560 + $3,072 + $1,536 + $1126.40 = $8,294.40
Monthly KDF ingestion charges

Per GB processed to VPC = 72 * 1,024 * $0.13 = $9,584.64
Total monthly charges = $8,294.40 + $9,584.64 = $17,879.04
If you enable Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection on 10 sta
Example 11 - Alarming with Anomaly Detection 
If you enable Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection on 10 standard resolution metrics per
month and only want to alarm on 5 of those metrics, you will create 5 standard resolution  
anomaly detection alarms. Anomaly Detection is available with standard resolution alarms
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Total number of standard resolution anomaly detection alarms = 5
Alarms are billed based on the number of metrics per alarm. For every anomaly detection
alarm, there are three standard resolution metrics per alarm. One is the actual metric being
evaluated, the second is the upper bound of expected behavior, and the third is the lower
bound of the expected behavior.
One standard resolution anomaly detection alarm = $0.10 * 3 standard resolution metrics per
alarm = $0.30 per month
Five standard resolution anomaly detection alarms = $0.30 per standard resolution anomaly
detection alarm * 5 alarms = $1.50 per month
Pricing values displayed here are based on US East Regions. Please refer to pricing tabs for
most current pricing information for your respective region(s). Anomaly Detection is currently
available in all commercial AWS Regions.
Example 12 - Container insights for Amazon ECS 
Example 13 - Container Insights for Amazon EKS and Kubernetes (with

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Example 14 - Monitoring your application with ServiceLens 
Example 15 – Monitoring with contributor insights 
Example 16 - Monitor application performance with Application

Signals (Preview), AWS X-Ray Traces, and Service Level Objectives 
(SLOs)
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Example 17 – End user monitoring with Synthetics 
Example 18 – Alarming with composite alarms 
Example 19 – S3 Request Metrics 
Example 20 – Monitoring with Lambda Insights 
Example 21 – Metric Streams 
Example 22 – Assignments (traffic splitting) with Evidently 
Example 23 – Launch monitoring with Evidently 
Example 24 – Experiments and launch monitoring with Evidently 
Example 25 – CloudWatch RUM 
Example 26 – Metrics Insights 
Example 27 – CloudWatch alarms with Metrics Insights queries and

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Example 28 - Internet Monitor 
Example 29 - Multi data source querying 
Example 30 - Network Monitor 
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Basic Monitoring Metrics (Metrics sent from AWS Services by default)

10 Metrics (of Custom Metrics and Detailed Monitoring Metrics)

3 Custom Dashboards referencing up to 50 metrics each per month. Additionally, all

Events All events except custom events are included

Contributor 1 Contributor Insights rule per month

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Manage Logs Price

Collect (Data Ingestion)

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Standard $0.50 per GB

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎Infrequent Access $0.25 per GB

Store (Archival) $0.03 per GB

Analyze (Logs Insights queries) $0.005 per GB of data scanned

Detect and Mask (Data Protection) $0.12 per GB of data scanned

Analyze (Live Tail) $0.01 per minute

Example 1 - EC2 Detailed Monitoring 

Total number of metrics = 7 metrics per instance * 5 instances = 35 metrics

Monthly CloudWatch charges = $10.5 per month

Example 2 - Cross-account observability 

Monthly Traces Recorded Bill = 48,800 traces * $0.000005 = $0.244

Monthly traces recorded bill on source account X = $0.244

Monthly traces recorded bill on source account X = $0.244 +

Example 3 - Custom metrics 

Monthly CloudWatch charges = $27,250 + $4,396.40 = $31,646.40 per month

Example 4 - S3 Replication metrics 

Monthly CloudWatch charges = $6.00 per month

Example 5 - Monitoring with logs 

Monthly Monitoring Charges

Monthly Archived Log Charges (assume log data compresses to 6GB)

Monthly CloudWatch Charges = $12.50 + $0 + $0.03 = $12.53

Example 6 - Analyzing logs with Live Tail 

Monthly Live Tail usage charges

Monthly Live Tail charges = $0

Monthly Live Tail usage charges

Monthly Live Tail charges = $182

Example 7 – Monitoring VPC flow logs delivered to CloudWatch logs 

Monthly log archival charges (assume log data compresses to 30TB)

Monthly CloudWatch Charges = $13,414.40 + $921.6 = $14,336

Note: Volume tiers reset at the start of every month

Example 8 - Monitoring VPC flow logs delivered to S3 

Monthly log ingestion charges

Monthly Apache Parquet format conversion charges (optional)

Monthly log archival charges (assume log data compresses to 6.5TB)* *

Monthly charges = $8,294.40 + $153.01 + $2,211.84 = $10,659.25

Note: Volume tiers reset at the start of every month

Example 9 - Detecting and masking sensitive log data with Data

Monthly archived log charges (assume log data compresses to 6 GB)

Monthly CloudWatch charges = $12.50 + $3.60 + $0.03 = $16.13

Example 10 - Monitoring VPC flow logs with Amazon Kinesis Data

Monthly log delivery charges

30TB to 50TB @$0.075 per GB = 20 * 1,024 * $0.075 = $1,536.00

Total delivery charges = $2,560 + $3,072 + $1,536 + $1126.40 = $8,294.40

Monthly KDF ingestion charges

Total monthly charges = $8,294.40 + $9,584.64 = $17,879.04