Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on launches one step onboarding for EKS workloads

You can now enable Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on on your EKS cluster with 1-click when provisioning. With 1-click enablement, CloudWatch Observability add-on turns on CloudWatch Container Insights and Application Signals together, enabling you to the understand the health and performance of your applications out of the box. CloudWatch Observability add-on integrates with EKS Pod Identity such that you can simply create a recommended IAM role for the add-on and re-use it across your clusters when creating them, saving you time and effort.

Previously, you need to create your clusters first, wait for their status to become active and install the CloudWatch Add-on next while managing the required IAM permissions separately. With this launch, you can now install the Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on when creating your clusters and launch them observability enabled, making observability telemetry available in CloudWatch out of the box. You can then use curated dashboards from CloudWatch Application Signals and CloudWatch Container Insights to take proactive actions in reducing application disruptions by isolating anomalies and troubleshooting faster.

CloudWatch Observability add-on is now available on Amazon EKS in all commercial AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can install, configure, and update the add-on with just a few clicks in the Amazon EKS console, APIs, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS CloudFormation. To get started, follow the user guide.