AWS Adds Intelligent Tiering to Amazon CloudWatch for Lower Monitoring Costs

Amazon Web Services has introduced intelligent tiering for Amazon CloudWatch, adding automated lifecycle management designed to reduce the cost of storing monitoring and observability data. Amazon CloudWatch monitors access patterns and automatically reclassifies data not accessed for 30 days to the Infrequent Access tier, and data not accessed for 90 days to the Archive Instant Access tier.

The feature automatically transitions eligible CloudWatch data to lower-cost storage tiers based on access patterns, allowing organizations to optimize storage expenses without manually managing data lifecycles. Storage tiers include Standard (existing), Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access based on access patterns. Customers retain access to historical monitoring information while reducing the cost of long-term retention.

The company said intelligent tiering is intended to help organizations balance operational visibility with cost efficiency as application telemetry continues to grow. The capability supports enterprises that retain logs and metrics for troubleshooting, performance analysis, security investigations and regulatory compliance. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Intelligent-Tiering is available in all AWS commercial regions except Middle East (Bahrain) and Middle East (UAE).

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Posted by AWS Editors on 07/15/2026