Amazon CloudWatch changelog 2025
74 announcements, 2025
All Amazon CloudWatch changes · 126 announcements since January 2025 · 4 GA · 1 Region expansion
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December 20255
November 202515
Amazon CloudWatch incident reports now support Five Whys analysis
CloudWatch Database Insights adds cross-account cross-region monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now supports Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS
Amazon CloudWatch Introduces In-Console Agent Management on EC2
Amazon CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery
Amazon CloudWatch real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs
Amazon CloudWatch Composite Alarms adds threshold-based alerting
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds AI-powered Synthetics debugging
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds multi-browser support in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for NVMe Local Volume Performance Statistics
October 20257
New Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor EC2 instances exceeding I/O performance
Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for Windows Event Log Filters
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports bundled multi-check canaries
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now provides on-demand analysis for RDS for SQL Server
Generative AI observability now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch
Application map is now generally available for Amazon CloudWatch
September 20258
Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience
Amazon CloudWatch now supports resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization
Amazon CloudWatch Observability Access Manager Now Supports VPC Endpoints
Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring adds flow visibility between Regions
Amazon CloudWatch query alarms now support monitoring metrics individually
Amazon CloudWatch now supports querying metrics data up to two weeks old
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds multi-browser support for application testing
August 20254
July 20251
June 20256
AWS Glue Data Catalog usage metrics now available with Amazon CloudWatch
Now in GA: Accelerate troubleshooting with Amazon CloudWatch investigations
AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for CloudWatch Log Insights
Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for EBS detailed performance statistics
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights launches Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL enhancements
Amazon CloudWatch now supports logs transformation for Contributor Insights
May 20258
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Java Runtime for Lightweight API Monitoring
CloudWatch Database Insights adds support for Aurora Limitless PostgreSQL
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces auto-monitor support for EKS workloads
AWS CloudWatch Synthetics adds safe canary updates and automatic retries
Amazon CloudWatch RUM adds support for Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Web Vital
Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring adds multi-account support for flow monitors
Amazon CloudWatch launches tiered pricing and additional destinations for AWS Lambda logs
April 20255
Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch agent now supports Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)
Monitor service dependencies with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals SLOs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs increases maximum log event size to 1 MB
March 20256
Amazon CloudWatch RUM is now generally available in 2 additional AWS regions
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports monitoring multiple domains with a single App Monitor
CloudWatch RUM now supports JavaScript source maps for easier error debugging
Manage SLO exclusion time windows using CloudWatch Application Signals
Amazon CloudWatch RUM introduces resource-based policy support for data ingestion access