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Amazon WorkSpaces adds enhanced observability metrics to CloudWatch

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Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to CloudWatch at no extra cost. These metrics provide IT administrators with deeper visibility into virtual desktop workloads, enabling proactive issue identification and troubleshooting for end-user experience. The enhanced metrics are available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces is supported.

  • →Enhanced observability metrics for WorkSpaces now available
  • →Proactive issue detection and faster resolution
  • →Metrics available at no additional cost in all supported regions
Features (1) ›
  • Enhanced observability metrics for WorkSpaces now available

    Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics cover network performance, resource utilization, and session lifecycle events, providing deeper visibility into virtual desktop workloads.

Enhancements (1) ›
  • Proactive issue detection and faster resolution

    The new metrics allow administrators to proactively identify and troubleshoot issues affecting end-user experience, such as network degradation or compute bottlenecks. This can reduce the mean time to resolution for performance problems.

Notes (1) ›
  • Metrics available at no additional cost in all supported regions

    These enhanced observability metrics are available at no additional cost and are supported in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces is offered. Administrators can access these metrics via the CloudWatch console, custom dashboards, or the WorkSpaces automatic dashboard.

Read the original announcement →

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/08/amazon-workspaces-observability-metrics

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