
    Amazon CloudWatch now enables customers to evaluate and set alarms on metric data spanning up to 7 days, expanding monitoring capabilities for longer-running processes and performance trends.


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Amazon CloudWatch has expanded its metric data evaluation and alarming capabilities, now allowing customers to assess metrics data up to 7 days old, a significant increase from the previous 24-hour limit.
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<li>Enables monitoring of longer-running or infrequent processes</li>
<li>Supports tracking day-over-day performance trends</li>
<li>Available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US)</li>
<li>Requires setting a period of at least 1 hour when creating alarms</li>
<li>Can be configured through CloudWatch console or CLI</li>
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This enhancement provides customers with more flexibility in monitoring and analyzing their cloud resources, offering deeper insights into application and system performance over extended periods.
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Amazon CloudWatch allows alarming on data up to 7 days old

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