Improve operational performance and resource optimization
Managing your costs is both a technology and a people exercise
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in your AWS resources. You can also use Amazon CloudWatch to gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operational health.
With Trusted Advisor you can provision your resources following best practices to improve system performance and reliability, increase security, and look for opportunities to save money. You can also turn off non-production instances and use Amazon CloudWatch and Autoscaling to match increases or reductions in demand.
Monitor, Track, and Analyze Your AWS Costs & Usage
Appropriate management, tracking and measurement are fundamental in achieving the full benefits of cost optimization.
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch collects monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing you with a unified view of AWS resources, applications, and services that run on AWS and on-premises servers.
AWS Trusted Advisor
AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real time guidance to help you provision your resources following AWS best practices.
AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer has an easy-to-use interface that lets you visualize, understand, and manage your AWS costs and usage over time.
Ready to get started?
It's easy to get started with CloudWatch. Jump start your experience using documentation, blog posts, and tutorials intended to guide you to best practices.
See how you can save money on AWS by eliminating unused and idle resources or making commitments to reserved capacity.
AWS Cost Explorer provides you with a set of default reports that you can use as the starting place for your analysis.