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Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL

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AWS has extended Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights to support self-managed PostgreSQL databases running on Amazon EC2. This enhancement allows users to monitor their entire database fleet, including both AWS-managed and self-managed instances, from a single console. Customers can collect health and performance data using the Amazon CloudWatch agent, gaining a unified view for diagnosing issues and resolving performance bottlenecks. This capability is now available in all AWS Commercial Regions.

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  • Monitor Self-Managed PostgreSQL on EC2 with CloudWatch Database Insights

    Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases hosted on Amazon EC2. This enables a unified observability solution for an entire database fleet, integrating both AWS-managed and self-managed instances into a single console view. Users can leverage the Amazon CloudWatch agent to collect critical health and performance data, including database load, wait event analysis, query-level statistics, and host metrics.

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https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/database-insights-self-managed-postgresql/

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