AWS CloudWatch Monitoring and Alerting - 2025 Edition
🚀 What’s New in This 2025 Update
Major Changes Since 2017
- Managed Observability - AWS managed Prometheus and Grafana services
- Container-Native Monitoring - Deep EKS/ECS integration with CloudWatch Container Insights
- Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation/Terraform for monitoring automation
- AI/ML-Powered Alerts - Amazon Lookout for Metrics and SageMaker integration
- Enhanced Security - New IAM Access Analyzer and mandatory MFA for root users
- Cost Optimization - Advanced cost monitoring and resource optimization tools
Key Improvements
- ✅ Modern Observability Stack - Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch integration
- ✅ Automated Monitoring - Infrastructure as Code and Lambda-based automation
- ✅ Multi-Cloud Support - Cloud-agnostic monitoring strategies
- ✅ Enhanced Security - Comprehensive security and compliance monitoring
Modern AWS Monitoring Architecture 2025
AWS monitoring has evolved significantly from custom solutions to managed observability platforms. This guide covers modern approaches using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and Infrastructure as Code.