Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account observability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

AWS launches CloudWatch cross-account observability in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling monitoring and troubleshooting of applications across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS GovCloud (US) Region. CloudWatch Cross-account observability allows seamless searching, visualization, and analysis of metrics, logs, and traces, removing account boundaries.

Security teams, operations teams, and service owners can now easily explore cross-account telemetry and analyze them to drive powerful insights helping to efficiently monitor and troubleshoot application health issues. CloudWatch Cross-account observability enables searching log groups across multiple accounts, running cross-account Logs Insights queries, and creating Contributor Insights rules to identify top contributors generating log entries. You can now run Metrics Insights queries on your cross-account metrics for a consolidated view and create cross-account alarms. With cross-account observability, you can now use AWS X-Ray Trace Map to monitor your cross-account applications or achieve single pane of glass observability on your end-to-end distributed traces for requests spanning across multiple accounts. For example, users can obtain end-to-end distributed traces tracking AWS Lambda functions calling each other across accounts. This eliminates the need to switch between accounts during troubleshooting, saving time and providing comprehensive visibility.

CloudWatch cross-account observability is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions with no extra cost for logs and metrics, and the first trace copy is free. Detailed pricing information and documentation are available on the Amazon CloudWatch pricing page and documentation pages.