Introducing OpenTelemetry and PromQL support in Amazon CloudWatch

Editor’s note (July 2026): This post has been updated to reflect the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch native OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion and PromQL support, including new capabilities and revised pricing. If you run Kubernetes or microservices workloads on AWS, your metrics likely carry dozens of labels: namespace, pod, container, node, deployment, replica set, and custom […]