Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-account metrics centralization

Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Centralization

Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Centralization, enabling replication of CloudWatch metrics across accounts and regions into a single destination account. This feature is particularly beneficial for enterprise teams managing complex multi-account, multi-region deployments, providing a unified view of operational health.

With CloudWatch Metrics Centralization, you can define centralization rules through AWS Organizations to automatically replicate metrics from source accounts and regions into a centralized destination account. This allows central teams to have full ownership of the data for querying, alarming, compliance, and governance. The centralized metrics are compatible with various CloudWatch features and OpenTelemetry metrics.

Available Regions

• US East (N. Virginia)
• US East (Ohio)
• US West (N. California)
• US West (Oregon)
• Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
• Asia Pacific (Osaka)
• Asia Pacific (Seoul)
• Asia Pacific (Singapore)
• Asia Pacific (Sydney)
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
• Canada (Central)
• Europe (Frankfurt)
• Europe (Ireland)
• Europe (London)
• Europe (Paris)
• Europe (Stockholm)
• South America (São Paulo)

What to do

• Define centralization rules through AWS Organizations.
• Replicate metrics from source accounts and regions into a centralized destination account.
• Utilize centralized metrics for querying, alarming, compliance, and governance.

Source: AWS release notes

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