tag: Cloudwatch · 16 items
- Platform/SRE — Learn: If you operate in GovCloud, EU Sovereign, or China regions and want unified S3 access log analysis alongside other CloudWatch metrics, this integration is now available — no deadline, but worth evaluating for your observability pipeline.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: CloudWatch Omni is now GA in more regions including major global hubs; platform teams running multi-region or multi-cloud observability stacks should evaluate adopting it as a replacement or complement to their existing Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry pipeline this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: CloudWatch Omni’s AI-powered, multi-cloud observability experience with SSO and agent observability support is worth tracking as it matures — no immediate strategic decision required, but relevant context for future build-vs-buy reviews of the observability stack.
- Platform/SRE — Plan: If your org operates in GovCloud or any of the newly supported commercial regions, this GA feature lets you centralize logs across accounts via AWS Organizations without custom pipelines — worth adding to your observability architecture this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: Cross-account log centralization is now available in GovCloud, which matters for regulated-industry customers; free for one copy, $0.05/GB beyond that — useful context for FinOps and compliance conversations but no immediate decision required.
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams running AWS Batch workloads can now replace custom metric scrapers with native CloudWatch metrics covering queue health, failure rates, and state-transition durations; worth integrating into existing dashboards and alerting this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA observability capability directly relevant to teams running Route 53 Resolver and DNS Firewall — plan to enable CloudWatch Metrics and Contributor Insights for DNS query visibility and anomaly alerting this quarter, noting that standard CloudWatch ingestion costs apply.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: Incremental native observability addition to existing Route 53/CloudWatch stack; no strategic, licensing, or pricing-model change beyond standard CloudWatch usage costs — useful context for teams evaluating DNS security posture but no decision required.
- Platform/SRE — Learn: If your platform uses Transfer Family managed workflows, you can now route each workflow’s execution logs to a dedicated CloudWatch log group, enabling per-workflow dashboards and alerts without mixing logs at the server level. No action required — existing workflows continue with current logging config.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Learn: New GA observability capability for HealthOmics workflows emitting CPU, GPU, memory, and storage metrics via OpenTelemetry to CloudWatch; relevant only if you operate bioinformatics workloads on HealthOmics, with no operational change required.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams using Transit Gateway inter-Region peering can now add network health indicators to CloudWatch dashboards and alarms, reducing time to isolate AWS-side degradation; evaluate adding NHI alarms to existing TGW peering path monitoring this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA WarmUpConfiguration parameter lets teams delay alarm evaluation after resource creation, reducing on-call noise from missing-data transitions during startup. Update IaC alarm definitions (Terraform/CloudFormation) to include warm-up periods for resources that take time to begin emitting metrics.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams running Amazon Linux 2023 or other systemd-only distros no longer need disk-export workarounds to ship structured journal logs to CloudWatch. Update the CloudWatch agent to the latest version and add a journald config block to consolidate logging for those instances this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Plan: GA additions to CloudWatch pipelines reduce the need for custom log-transformation Lambda functions or external processors; evaluate replacing any bespoke RDS/XML parsing glue with these managed processors during the next observability stack review.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Signals: GA announcement
- Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams using CloudWatch Centralization can now preserve cost, ownership, and compliance tags across accounts — worth enabling tag propagation on existing centralization rules to unlock IAM scoping and per-team cost attribution in Cost Explorer.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: Tag propagation on centralized logs enables per-team observability cost attribution out of the box, which may inform how your org structures log ownership and FinOps reporting for multi-account environments.
- Platform/SRE — Learn: New free CloudWatch metrics for WorkSpaces cover network, compute, storage, and session health — worth incorporating into dashboards if your org runs WorkSpaces as part of the platform, but no migration or deadline required.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Learn: If your org uses Lambda Managed Instances for high-volume EC2-backed workloads, structured JSON lifecycle logs (launches, terminations, health checks) are now auto-enabled in CloudWatch — useful context for diagnosing provisioning issues, but no action required since it ships on by default.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Platform/SRE — Learn: New GA CloudWatch feature ingesting OpenTelemetry metrics from coding agents; no infrastructure changes required, but platform engineers who own the observability stack should note it as a new dimension of telemetry available alongside existing operational data.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Plan: Directly addresses AI coding tool ROI governance — token spend, commit throughput, PR velocity, and cost-per-model comparisons; evaluate enabling Coding Agent Insights this quarter to inform decisions on expanding or right-sizing AI tool access across teams.
- 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.