Container Insights pricing of metrics

[tgraupne]

While reading the best practices guides I came across this line stating:

Metrics collected by Container Insights are charged as custom metrics.

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Permalinks:

https://github.com/aws-observability/observability-best-practices/blob/97774e64728c09fc85fb37b1f618af8d722915cb/docs/en/guides/containers/aws-native/ecs/best-practices-metrics-collection-1.md?plain=1#L29

https://github.com/aws-observability/observability-best-practices/blob/97774e64728c09fc85fb37b1f618af8d722915cb/docs/en/guides/containers/aws-native/eks/amazon-cloudwatch-container-insights.md?plain=1#L15

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However, after the release of Container Insights with Enhanced Observability last year, I believe AWS changed the billing of Container Insights. On there AWS CloudWatch Pricing Website they state the following:

Container Insights with enhanced observability uses a tiered pricing model based on observations.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/

Now, I am not sure if I understood all the documentation regarding pricing but since I saw that the specific line I am mentioning was pushed months before the new release of enhanced observability, I thought this information might be outdated. 🙂