AWS CloudWatch · FinOps Profile

Cloudwatch Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Amazon CloudWatch: pure pay-as-you-go metering across metrics, API requests, alarms, logs (ingest / storage / query / Live Tail), dashboards, Contributor Insights, Synthetics, RUM, Application Signals, Internet Monitor and Network Flow Monitor. Costs land in AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR / CUR 2.0) under service code `AmazonCloudWatch` with usage-type granularity, and CloudWatch itself emits service-quota usage metrics that can be alarmed.

Cloudwatch Finops is the FinOps profile for AWS CloudWatch on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 11 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category pay-as-you-go + committed use.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include FinOps, FOCUS, Aws, Observability, and Cost Management.

Category: Observability Pricing: Pay-As-You-Go + Committed Use Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
FinOpsFOCUSAwsObservabilityCost Management

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsageTaxAdjustmentRefundCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Amazon Web Services
PublisherName
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
ServiceCategory
Observability
ServiceName
AmazonCloudWatch

Meters

custom_metrics
Unit: metric-month
Custom and detailed-monitoring metrics, billed monthly with volume-tiered pricing.
api_requests
Unit: request
CloudWatch API requests (PutMetricData, GetMetricData, GetMetricStatistics, ListMetrics, etc.).
alarm_metrics
Unit: alarm-month
Standard- and high-resolution alarm metrics.
logs_ingested
Unit: GB
Volume of log data ingested into CloudWatch Logs.
logs_storage
Unit: GB-month
Archived log data retained beyond ingest.
logs_insights_scanned
Unit: GB
Bytes scanned by Logs Insights queries.
live_tail_minutes
Unit: minute
Live Tail streaming session minutes.
contributor_insights_rules
Unit: rule-month
Contributor Insights rules and matched events.
synthetics_canary_runs
Unit: run
Synthetics canary runs.
rum_events
Unit: event
CloudWatch RUM events recorded from end-user browsers.
application_signals_data
Unit: GB
Application Signals telemetry ingestion volume.

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