Too Long; Didn't Read
It is surprisingly easy to rack up a bill while using CloudWatch if you’re not cautious. The most important rule to keeping your CloudWatch bill down is keeping only what you need. There are a few tips there are also some smaller things you should always keep in mind when working with CloudWatch. For example CloudWatch Insights query: This query took me two seconds to write, then scanned over 13 different log streams with a total of almost 46,000 records. We're working on a fairly small scale here, just some API Gateway logs.