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Diagram of Amazon CloudWatch pipelines showing where the ingestion meter sits for CloudWatch Logs versus S3 sources

Cloud & FinOps · Aug 22, 2026 · 12 min read

CloudWatch pipelines added GeoIP, RDS and XML processors on 19 August 2026 at a metering fork

AWS says the three new CloudWatch pipelines processors cost nothing extra. The pipelines documentation says S3 and third-party sources are metered after processing, so every enriched byte is billed as a Custom log.

Manu Shukla

#amazon-cloudwatch #observability cost #AWS

Telemetry pipeline diagram showing data filtered at the collector before reaching a billing meter

Cloud & FinOps · Aug 7, 2026 · 14 min read

Observability cost reduction in 2026: 6 billing rules that decide your bill

Most observability overspend is not a vendor problem. It is a data-model problem meeting a billing rule nobody read. Here are the six published rules that move the number, with the primary sources.

Manu Shukla

#observability cost #opentelemetry #FinOps