Cost Optimization & FinOps
Part 9
palaniappan p 7 min
Amazon CloudWatch Pricing: The 10 Billing Dimensions Behind Your Observability Bill
CloudWatch bills across ten distinct dimensions — Logs ingestion at $0.50/GB, Logs storage, custom metrics with cardinality multipliers, alarms tiered by resolution and type, dashboards at $3 each, Synthetics canary runs, RUM events, X-Ray traces, Container Insights, and cross-region replication. Logs ingestion is the largest line on most accounts.