Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account-level retention policies to manage log data retention across all or specific log groups in an AWS account.

When an Aurora MySQL or Amazon RDS for MySQL database slows down, it can be hard to tell why. This post shows how to read DB load in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights, interpret the most common MySQL wait events, and turn each into a concrete action, so you can fix the real bottleneck instead of scaling up to a larger instance.

While exploring the latest AWS updates, I came across a useful improvement in Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces account-level retention policies

Gain device-level GPU visibility on Amazon EKS, eliminate blind spots, and cut compute waste with CloudWatch accelerated compute insights.

Deploying an application is just the beginning. Understanding its performance is what keeps it reliable. ☁️ Exploring Amazon CloudWatch and how metrics, logs, dashboards, and alarms help monitor AWS resources, troubleshoot issues, and improve application reliability.

Groups Conversations All groups and messages Sign in     Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces account-level retention policies 0 views Skip to first unread message Eyal Estrin unread, 11:47 AM (25 minutes ago)    to https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/amazon-cloudwatch-log-retention/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/Working-with-log-groups-and-streams.html#account-level-retention-policies https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatchLogs/latest/APIReference/API_PutAccountPolicy.html Eyal Estrin Author | Cloud Architect | AWS • Azure • GCP Insights Social: @eyalestrin Connect: https://linktr.ee/eyalestrin Blog: https://security-24-7.com Reply all Reply to author Forward

Learn how to monitor an AWS Lambda application using Amazon CloudWatch. Explore logs, metrics, alarms, and a simple hands-on example to understand how developers detect and troubleshoot application errors.

Groups Conversations All groups and messages Sign in     Diagnose Amazon Aurora MySQL performance using CloudWatch Database Insights 0 views Skip to first unread message Eyal Estrin unread, 3:35 PM (11 minutes ago)    to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/diagnose-amazon-aurora-mysql-performance-using-cloudwatch-database-insights/ Eyal Estrin Author | Cloud Architect | AWS • Azure • GCP Insights Social: @eyalestrin Connect: https://linktr.ee/eyalestrin Blog: https://security-24-7.com Reply all Reply to author Forward

Monitoring the health of your API endpoints is important to understand the overall health of your workloads. You can use Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to monitor your API endpoints and understand the overall health of your workloads. CloudWatch Synthetics canaries allow you to monitor API endpoints by creating HTTP steps and configuring the request type, endpoint URL, […]

What happens when the internet disappears while using a cloud application? This article explores how to build offline-first applications using AWS services. Learn how local storage, Progressive Web Apps, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and DynamoDB work together to preserve user data and synchronize it when connectivity returns. Discover practical architecture, data conflict handling, security considerations, and steps to build a more reliable cloud application.

Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Amplify Hosting adds monitoring capabilities with Amazon CloudWatch integration

Learn how to add useful logs to a Python Lambda function, find them in Amazon CloudWatch, and investigate failed requests. Build a simple task-validation example while exploring structured logging and safe debugging practices.

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard

    CloudWatch PromQL alarms now support EC2 and Application Auto Scaling 0 views Eyal Estrin unread, 10:47 AM (25 minutes ago)    to https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/amazon-cloudwatch-alarms-autoscaling-group-actions/ https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch-PromQL-Alarms.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/alarm-actions.html Eyal Estrin Author | Cloud Architect | AWS • Azure • GCP Insights Social: @eyalestrin Connect: https://linktr.ee/eyalestrin Blog: https://security-24-7.com Reply all Reply to author Forward

A zero-infrastructure AWS DevOps Agent skill profiles your Amazon CloudWatch Logs estate and gives you one view of it. CloudWatch Logs already captures the signals you need to operate it well, including how each log group is classed, how long it is kept, who reads it, where its data flows, and how fast it grows. [...]

Groups Conversations All groups and messages Sign in Technical - Cloud Conversations About Privacy • Terms     Profile your Amazon CloudWatch Logs estate with an AWS DevOps Agent skill in sandbox, no infrastructure to deploy 0 views Eyal Estrin unread, 12:20 AM (5 minutes ago)    to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/profile-your-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-estate-with-an-aws-devops-agent-skill-in-sandbox-no-infrastructure-to-deploy/ Eyal Estrin Author | Cloud Architect | AWS • Azure • GCP Insights Social: @eyalestrin Connect: https://linktr.ee/eyalestrin Blog: https://security-24-7.com Reply all Reply to author Forward

Dashboard e alarme no CloudWatch para monitorar os jobs do AWS Backup.

AWS DevOps Agent skill profiles CloudWatch Logs estates at scale using Sandbox to run analysis code without standing infrastructure.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports account-level retention policies to manage log data retention across all or specific log groups in an AWS account.

Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.