AWS: CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service holding hands
New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience
Organizations often need different analytics capabilities for their log data. Some teams prefer CloudWatch Logs for its scalability and simplicity in centralizing logs from all their systems, applications, and AWS services. Others require OpenSearch Service for advanced analytics and visualizations. Previously, integration between these services required maintaining separate ingestion pipelines or creating ETL processes. This new integration helps customers get the best of both services by eliminating this complexity by bringing the power of OpenSearch analytics directly to CloudWatch Logs, without any data copy.
This seems like a really powerful thing. Lately I've been talking a bit with customers about how to choose the right observability tooling. The conversations often lead to deciding between CloudWatch or OpenSearch or connecting the two together through a messy workflow. With this new capability customers will no longer need to make the choice, and "without any data copy" is always a good thing!