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CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Multilocation Canary Support
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows running canaries across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point. This feature reduces operational overhead and configuration drift compared to managing separate canaries per region. It ensures consistent user experience, identifies region-specific issues, and enhances alert confidence by requiring multi-location failures. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions supporting CloudWatch Synthetics, and existing canaries can be upgraded.
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AWS Compute Optimizer adds EBS volume performance metrics
AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes IOPS and throughput spikes for EBS volumes, offering better rightsizing recommendations. This enhancement helps balance cost and performance for workloads with bursty traffic. It applies to most AWS Regions for EBS volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances, with underlying CloudWatch metrics available at no extra cost.
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AWS HealthOmics streams workflow logs to CloudWatch in real time
AWS HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time, allowing for immediate monitoring of workflow execution. This feature accelerates development and debugging for researchers and bioinformaticians by providing instant access to execution details. The streamed logs include orchestration events, task scheduling, import/export activity, and error stack traces, which can be used for alarms, dashboards, and integration with existing observability tools. This capability is now available for Nextflow, WDL, and CWL workflows in all HealthOmics regions.
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Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics Unifies Log Querying, Streaming, and Analysis
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics is a new unified console experience that integrates Logs Insights for querying, Live Tail for real-time streaming, and Contributor Insights for identifying top contributors. This consolidation aims to streamline log analysis for engineers and architects by providing all these capabilities within a single interface. Log Analytics is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses the same pricing as its constituent services.
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Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio GA
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available, offering a unified interface for querying and visualizing metrics across multiple AWS accounts and regions. This feature allows teams to use PromQL or Metrics Insights to explore OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics from a single workspace, simplifying fleet-wide correlation of performance data. It provides visual query building, diverse visualization options, and integration with CloudWatch dashboards and Grafana, aiding engineers and architects in monitoring complex distributed systems.
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CloudWatch Metrics Centralization now generally available
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Centralization is now generally available, allowing users to replicate metrics across accounts and regions into a single destination. This feature helps enterprise teams gain a unified view of operational health in complex, multi-account deployments. Central teams can now own and query metrics for various operational needs, with support for both CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry metrics.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds native histogram support
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports native histograms, allowing for higher-resolution metric distributions with reduced cardinality and more precise percentile calculations. This benefits DevOps and SRE teams by eliminating the need for manual bucket configuration and lowering the active series count. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and offers a more cost-effective way to monitor distributions.
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CloudWatch Application Signals adds context for troubleshooting
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now integrates infrastructure, logs, and traces directly into its service overview and application map. This enhancement allows operators to triage unhealthy services and inspect underlying compute, log snippets, and trace details within a single interface, reducing the need to switch between tools for root cause analysis. These capabilities are available for workloads on Amazon EKS, ECS, Lambda, and EC2 in all supported AWS Regions.
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Amazon MWAA Serverless supports EventBridge notifications
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to emit notifications for workflow and task state changes. This feature enables data engineering and platform teams to build event-driven automation, reducing the need for custom polling logic. It's available in all AWS Regions where MWAA Serverless is supported, offering enhanced automation possibilities like triggering alerts or restarting dependent pipelines.
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VPC Flow Logs adds EC2 resource tags and next-hop metadata
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now includes EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting. This eliminates manual data correlation, allowing users to directly link flow logs to specific resources and understand traffic traversal. This enhancement is available across numerous AWS Regions and is ideal for engineers managing VPC network traffic.
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Amazon MWAA Serverless supports EventBridge notifications
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, allowing for event-driven automation of Airflow workflows. This eliminates the need for custom polling by emitting events for workflow and task state changes, such as success or failure. Data engineering and platform teams can leverage this feature to automate alerts, restart dependent pipelines, or log state transitions, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.
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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds out-of-order ingestion and rule query offset
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and a workspace-level rule query offset. These features help reduce data loss and improve alerting accuracy for workloads with distributed collectors or variable network latency. This update is available in all regions where the service is generally available and benefits users with intermittent ingestion delays.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service adds IDE integration for observability
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates with agentic IDEs like VS Code and Claude Desktop through MCP Apps, allowing AI agents to investigate incidents using logs, traces, and metrics. This feature enables users to perform root cause analysis and review results in interactive visualizations within their IDE without context switching. The integration supports various observability workflows, from alerting to cross-signal correlation, and is available in all AWS Regions offering OpenSearch UI.
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AWS Cost Anomaly Detection adds AI-powered root cause investigation
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now integrates Amazon Q to automatically analyze the root cause of cost anomalies, delivering plain-language explanations in minutes instead of hours. This feature aids FinOps and engineering teams by identifying usage or rate drivers, contributing services, accounts, regions, and specific API calls. Available immediately in all commercial AWS Regions at no extra charge, it streamlines the transition from alert to action for cost optimization efforts.
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CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 23 new query commands and functions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has expanded its query language with 23 new commands and functions for enhanced log analysis. These additions enable more sophisticated parsing, transformation, and conditional processing of log data, addressing common customer needs. The new capabilities, including improved string and IP functions, are now available in all commercial AWS Regions.
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CloudWatch adds OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying
Amazon CloudWatch now supports ingesting metrics via OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and querying them using PromQL, enabling unified analysis of custom and AWS vended metrics. This new capability benefits engineers and architects using Prometheus-compatible tools like Grafana, offering a more integrated monitoring experience. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions with per-GB ingestion pricing and included storage.
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Amazon OpenSearch UI now available in AWS GovCloud regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service has extended its operational analytics UI to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and US-West regions, allowing unified insights from managed domains and serverless collections. This expansion includes enhanced Workspaces for team collaboration and a revamped Discover interface with improved usability and multi-source support for languages like PPL and SQL. The availability ensures users can leverage the latest UI features and tools across different OpenSearch versions, connecting to domains above 1.3 or serverless collections.
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Amazon EKS Capabilities support CloudWatch Vended Logs
Amazon EKS Capabilities can now use Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs to monitor managed controllers for Argo CD, ACK, and kro. This enables reliable log delivery to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose for easier troubleshooting. The feature is available in all supported AWS Regions with standard CloudWatch Vended Logs pricing.
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AWS IoT Core adds connectivity and authentication logs
AWS IoT Core now provides two new CloudWatch log event types, Ping and Connection.AuthNError, to help troubleshoot device connectivity and authentication issues. These logs allow identification of dropped connections and faster resolution of credential or certificate problems. The new events are available in all AWS Regions where IoT Core is supported, requiring configuration of event-level logging and opt-in.
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Amazon Connect adds real-time dashboard alerts for conversational analytics
Amazon Connect now allows contact center supervisors to set up real-time dashboard alerts for detected keywords, phrases, or sentiment during live calls and chats. This feature enables faster agent coaching and issue resolution, potentially reducing customer churn. Real-time conversational analytics alerts are available in supported AWS regions.
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