Amazon CloudWatch vs. AWS Cost and Usage Report
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | Amazon CloudWatch | AWS Cost and Usage Report |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.3 | 3.7 |
| Review count | 403 | 15 |
| Ease of use | 8.4 | 8.4 |
| Ease of setup | 8.7 | 7.1 |
| Quality of support | 8.6 | 8.9 |
| Meets requirements | 8.8 | 9.3 |
| NPS | 54.269972 | 0 |
| Small Business | 28.9% | 53.3% |
| Mid-Market | 30.1% | 40.0% |
| Enterprise | 41.0% | 6.7% |
| Total page views | 461 | 81 |
| Total LLM citations | 710 | 28 |
Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon CloudWatch is a comprehensive monitoring and observability service designed to provide real-time insights into AWS resources, on-premises servers, hybrid environments, and applications. It enables users to collect and track metrics, monitor log files, set alarms, and automatically react to changes in their AWS resources. By offering a unified view of operational health, CloudWatch helps organizations optimize application performance, manage resource utilization, and maintain system reliability.
- Log Management
- Integrations
- Alerting Systems
- Monitoring
- Real-time Monitoring
- Alerting System
AWS Cost and Usage Report
The AWS Cost & Usage Report lists AWS usage for each service category used by an account and its IAM users in hourly or daily line items, as well as any tags that you have activated for cost allocation purposes. You can also customize the AWS Cost & Usage Report to aggregate your usage data to the daily or monthly level.
- Cost Saving