Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces support for multilocation canaries, allowing developers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single point of management.

• Create and manage canaries in one primary Region; CloudWatch Synthetics automatically replicates to additional Regions
• Consolidates all run data, metrics, and artifacts in the primary Region for simplified monitoring
• Identify region-specific performance bottlenecks and validate third-party dependencies across locations
• Configure alarms that activate only when issues are detected from multiple locations
• Upgrade existing single-region canaries to multilocation by adding replica Regions without recreating them
• Available in all AWS commercial Regions that support CloudWatch Synthetics

Multilocation canaries eliminate operational overhead of managing separate canaries per Region while ensuring consistent user experience worldwide and reducing alert noise.