Amazon CloudWatch launches Cross-Account and Cross-Region Log Centralization
Amazon CloudWatch now offers cross-account and cross-region log centralization, allowing customers to copy log data from multiple AWS accounts and regions into a single destination account. This capability seamlessly integrates with AWS Organizations, enabling efficient aggregation of logs from workloads that span multiple accounts and regions into a single account without the need to manage custom solutions.
The log centralization feature provides the ability to scope the centralization rules to copy log data from their entire organization, specific organizational units, or selected accounts into a single account. To maintain source context and data lineage, log events are enriched with new system fields (@aws.account and @aws.region) that identify the original source account and region. Additional capabilities include selective log group copying, automatic merging of same-named log groups in the destination account, and optional backup region setup, simplifying centralized log management.
Log centralization is available in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo).
To learn more, visit the Amazon CloudWatch documentation. Customers can centralize one copy of logs for free. Additional copies are charged at $0.05/GB of logs centralized (the backup region feature is considered an additional copy). For details, visit the CloudWatch Pricing page.