Amazon CloudWatch OTel: Open Standards Observability, Managed by AWS - April 2026

New Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Experience for OpenTelemetry — Free Public Preview In April 2026, we launched a new OpenTelemetry metrics experience in Amazon CloudWatch, now available in Free Public Preview. CloudWatch OTel introduces a cost-effective metric datastore purpose-built for high-cardinality data from modern environments with no additional infrastructure to manage. Teams can query, explore, and troubleshoot operational data using familiar open-source approaches directly inside CloudWatch. Ultimately you can aggregate vended metrics with OTel metrics together CloudWatch for full stack observability. Explore data without constraints — group by any attribute, visualize trends instantly, and set real-time alerts across services and labels. What you'll learn: Leverage AWS-vended telemetry alongside OpenTelemetry at scale Use a unified interface for infrastructure and application metrics Adopt open standards natively within CloudWatch Reduce MTTR, improve service reliability, and achieve better cost efficiency Time Stamps 00:00 - Opening 02:10 - Intro to CloudWatch Metric Observability XP 17:15 - Demo