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Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds intelligent storage tiering (3 tiers)

2026-07-16 12:15 UTC · AWS What's New · read the source ↗ #cloudwatch#observability#cost-optimization
  • Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA capability that can eliminate the need to export verbose logs to S3 or filter them for cost reasons — evaluate enabling account-level intelligent tiering this quarter to simplify your observability stack and reduce log storage spend.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Plan: This changes the unit economics of CloudWatch log retention, making it viable to keep high-volume logs natively rather than running export pipelines to cheaper storage; include in the next FinOps/observability cost review cycle.
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