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CloudWatch Service Quotas
CloudWatch has the following quotas for metrics, alarms, API requests, email notifications, and logs.
| Resource | Default Quota |
|---|---|
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Actions |
5/alarm. This quota cannot be changed. |
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Alarms |
10/month/customer for free. 5000 per Region, per account.
You can request a quota increase Alarms based on metric math expressions can have up to 10 metrics. |
|
Anomaly detection models |
500 per Region, per account. |
|
API requests |
1,000,000/month/customer for free. |
|
Contributor Insights API requests |
GetInsightRuleReport has a quota of
20 transactions per second (TPS). You can request a quota increase The following APIs have a quota of 1 transaction per second. This quota cannot be changed. |
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Contributor Insights rules |
100 rules per account. You can request a quota increase |
|
Custom metrics |
No quota. |
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Dashboards |
Up to 500 metrics per dashboard widget. Up to 2500 metrics per dashboard, across all widgets. These quotas include all metrics retrieved for use in metric math functions, even if those metrics are not displayed on the graph. These quotas cannot be changed. |
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9 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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DeleteAlarms request DescribeAlarmHistory request DescribeAlarmsForMetric request DisableAlarmActions request EnableAlarmActions request SetAlarmState request |
3 transactions per second (TPS) for each of these operations. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. These quotas cannot be changed. |
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DeleteDashboards request GetDashboard request ListDashboards request PutDashboard request |
10 transactions per second (TPS) for each of these operations. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. These quotas cannot be changed. |
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10 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. |
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5 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. |
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Dimensions |
10/metric. This quota cannot be changed. |
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50 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can
make per second without being throttled. You can
request a quota increase 180,000 Datapoints Per Second (DPS) if the |
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A single This quota cannot be changed. |
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400 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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Up to 500 metrics per image. This quota cannot be changed. 20 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. This quota cannot be changed. |
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25 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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|
Metric data |
15 months. This quota cannot be changed. |
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MetricDatum items |
20/PutMetricData request. A MetricDatum object can contain a single value or a StatisticSet object representing many values. This quota cannot be changed. |
|
Metrics |
10/month/customer for free. |
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Period |
Maximum value is one day (86,400 seconds). This quota cannot be changed. |
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PutMetricAlarm request |
3 transactions per second (TPS). The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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PutMetricData request |
40 KB for HTTP POST requests. PutMetricData can handle 150 transactions per second (TPS), which is the maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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Amazon SNS email notifications |
1,000/month/customer for free. |
