AWS CloudWatch Pricing (2026)
Cloud monitoring services collect metrics, logs, and traces from your infrastructure and applications. They provide dashboards, alerting, and anomaly detection to maintain operational visibility across your entire cloud environment. CloudWatch provides unified monitoring with Metrics, Logs, Alarms, Dashboards, and Application Insights plus Synthetics for uptime monitoring. Starting from $0.0000/hr ($0.00/mo) for Application Signals.
Key Features
- ✓Automatic metric collection from cloud resources
- ✓Custom metrics and log aggregation
- ✓Configurable alarms and notification policies
- ✓Dashboard creation and visualization
- ✓Log search and analytics with query languages
Common Use Cases
Infrastructure Monitoring
Track CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics across all your cloud resources with automatic alerting on anomalies.
Application Performance
Monitor application latency, error rates, and throughput to identify performance bottlenecks and regressions.
Cost Optimization
Use resource utilization metrics to right-size instances and identify underutilized resources for cost savings.
On-Demand Pricing
Pay-as-you-go pricing with no upfront commitment. You are billed per hour of usage and can start or stop at any time. Hourly rates start at $0.0000/hr ($0.00/mo) for Application Signals.
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| Data Payload | $0.5000 | $365.00 |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - |
| CloudWatch Network Monitor | - | - |
| API Request | $0.0000 | $0.01 |
| Data Payload | - | - |
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| Alarm | - | - |
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| Metric | - | - |
| Rule-PrivateLink | $9.0000 | $6,570.00 |
| Metric | - | - |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | $0.0031 | $2.28 |
| Metric | $0.3000 | $219.00 |
| CW-CityNetwork | - | - |
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| API Request | - | - |
| CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor | - | - |
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| X-Ray Spans Indexed | - | - |
| Data Payload | $0.2500 | $182.50 |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - |
| Contributor Insights | - | - |
| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - |
| Storage Snapshot | - | - |
| Data Payload | - | - |
| CW-Evidently | - | - |
| CW-InternetMonitor | - | - |
| API Request | - | - |
| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - |
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Pricing by Instance Family
Data Payload
39 instance types available
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| Data Payload | $0.5000 | $365.00 |
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| Data Payload | $0.2500 | $182.50 |
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Application Signals
3 instance types available
| Instance | Price/hr | Price/mo |
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| Application Signals | - | - |
| Application Signals | $0.0000 | $0.00 |
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Metric Streams
1 instance type available
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API Request
12 instance types available
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| API Request | $0.0000 | $0.01 |
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CloudWatch Database Insights
14 instance types available
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | $0.0031 | $2.28 |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | $0.0125 | $9.13 |
CloudWatch Network Monitor
2 instance types available
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| CloudWatch Network Monitor | - | - |
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Alarm
4 instance types available
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| Alarm | $0.1000 | $73.00 |
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Metric
5 instance types available
| Instance | Price/hr | Price/mo |
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| Metric | - | - |
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| Metric | $0.3000 | $219.00 |
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AmazonCloudWatch
8 instance types available
| Instance | Price/hr | Price/mo |
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| Rule-PrivateLink | $9.0000 | $6,570.00 |
| CW-CityNetwork | - | - |
| CW-Evidently | - | - |
| CW-InternetMonitor | - | - |
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| Event-DynamoDB | - | - |
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| CW-RUM | - | - |
CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor
3 instance types available
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| CloudWatch Network Flow Monitor | - | - |
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X-Ray Spans Indexed
2 instance types available
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Contributor Insights
5 instance types available
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Storage Snapshot
1 instance type available
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Application Signals Bytes
1 instance type available
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Reserved Instance & Savings Plans Pricing
Commit to 1 or 3 years for lower hourly rates.
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| Data Payload | $0.5000 | $365.00 | - | - |
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| CloudWatch Network Monitor | - | - | - | - |
| API Request | $0.0000 | $0.01 | - | - |
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| Rule-PrivateLink | $9.0000 | $6,570.00 | - | - |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | $0.0031 | $2.28 | - | - |
| Metric | $0.3000 | $219.00 | - | - |
| CW-CityNetwork | - | - | - | - |
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| Data Payload | $0.2500 | $182.50 | - | - |
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| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - | - | - |
| Contributor Insights | - | - | - | - |
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| Storage Snapshot | - | - | - | - |
| Data Payload | - | - | - | - |
| CW-Evidently | - | - | - | - |
| CW-InternetMonitor | - | - | - | - |
| API Request | - | - | - | - |
| CloudWatch Database Insights | - | - | - | - |
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How CloudWatch Pricing Works
On-Demand
Pay per hour with no long-term commitment. Ideal for variable workloads and development environments.
Reserved / Committed Use
Commit to 1 or 3 years for significant discounts.
Spot / Preemptible
Use spare capacity at steep discounts. Best for fault-tolerant, batch, and stateless workloads.
Pricing Insights
Amazon CloudWatch offers 11 pricing tiers from $0.000002/hr to $9.00/hr in the US East region.
Compare tiers by specs and price to find the best fit for your workload.
By Instance Family
- ●Data Payload: 4 tiers, $0.2500/hr – $0.5000/hr
- ●CloudWatch Database Insights: 2 tiers, $0.003125/hr – $0.0125/hr
- ●API Request: 1 tier at $0.000020/hr
- ●AmazonCloudWatch: 1 tier at $9.00/hr
- ●Metric: 1 tier at $0.3000/hr
- ●Application Signals: 1 tier at $0.000002/hr
Cost Optimization Tips
- ✓With 11 available tiers, right-sizing your instance to match actual usage is key to cost optimization.
Monthly Cost Examples
Frequently Asked Questions
What is AWS CloudWatch?
AWS CloudWatch is a cloud service offered by Amazon Web Services. It provides various configurations (100 pricing tiers available) with pay-as-you-go and committed-use pricing options.
How much does AWS CloudWatch cost per month?
Prices range from $0.00/month for Application Signals to $6,570.00/month for Rule-PrivateLink on On-Demand pricing in us-east-1.
Does AWS CloudWatch have a free tier?
AWS offers various free tier options. Check the official AWS pricing page for the most current free tier details for CloudWatch.
How many AWS CloudWatch pricing tiers are available?
There are 100 pricing tiers available for AWS CloudWatch. These range from entry-level configurations to high-performance options for enterprise workloads.
What pricing models does AWS CloudWatch offer?
AWS CloudWatch offers On-Demand (pay-per-hour, no commitment), Reserved/Committed Use (1-3 year commitments for significant discounts), and in some cases Spot/Preemptible pricing for interruptible workloads at the lowest cost.
Are monitoring and management services free?
Most providers include basic monitoring (CPU, memory, disk metrics) at no extra cost. Custom metrics, detailed logs, extended retention, and advanced features like anomaly detection are charged per metric, per GB ingested, or per API call. Costs can grow quickly with high-cardinality metrics.