Amazon CloudWatch endpoints and quotas
The following are the service endpoints and service quotas for this service. To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. In addition to the standard AWS endpoints, some AWS services offer FIPS endpoints in selected Regions. For more information, see AWS service endpoints. Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your AWS account. For more information, see AWS service quotas.
Service Endpoints
Region Name | Region | Endpoint | Protocol |
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US East (Ohio) | us-east-2 |
monitoring.us-east-2.amazonaws.com monitoring-fips.us-east-2.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
US East (N. Virginia) | us-east-1 |
monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com monitoring-fips.us-east-1.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
US West (N. California) | us-west-1 |
monitoring.us-west-1.amazonaws.com monitoring-fips.us-west-1.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
US West (Oregon) | us-west-2 |
monitoring.us-west-2.amazonaws.com monitoring-fips.us-west-2.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
Africa (Cape Town) | af-south-1 | monitoring.af-south-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | ap-east-1 | monitoring.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | ap-south-1 | monitoring.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Osaka) | ap-northeast-3 | monitoring.ap-northeast-3.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Seoul) | ap-northeast-2 | monitoring.ap-northeast-2.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Singapore) | ap-southeast-1 | monitoring.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Sydney) | ap-southeast-2 | monitoring.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | ap-northeast-1 | monitoring.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Canada (Central) | ca-central-1 | monitoring.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
China (Beijing) | cn-north-1 | monitoring.cn-north-1.amazonaws.com.cn | HTTP and HTTPS |
China (Ningxia) | cn-northwest-1 | monitoring.cn-northwest-1.amazonaws.com.cn | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (Frankfurt) | eu-central-1 | monitoring.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (Ireland) | eu-west-1 | monitoring.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (London) | eu-west-2 | monitoring.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (Milan) | eu-south-1 | monitoring.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (Paris) | eu-west-3 | monitoring.eu-west-3.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Europe (Stockholm) | eu-north-1 | monitoring.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
Middle East (Bahrain) | me-south-1 | monitoring.me-south-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
South America (São Paulo) | sa-east-1 | monitoring.sa-east-1.amazonaws.com | HTTP and HTTPS |
AWS GovCloud (US-East) | us-gov-east-1 |
monitoring.us-gov-east-1.amazonaws.com monitoring.us-gov-east-1.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
AWS GovCloud (US-West) | us-gov-west-1 |
monitoring.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com monitoring.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com |
HTTP and HTTPS HTTPS |
Service Quotas
Resource | Default Quota |
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Actions |
5/alarm. This quota cannot be changed. |
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. |
Canaries |
100 per Region per account in the following Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). 20 per Region per account in all other Regions. You can request a quota increase |
Contributor Insights API requests |
GetInsightRuleReport has a quota of
20 transactions per second (TPS), per Region. You can request a quota increase The following APIs have a quota of 1 TPS per Region. This quota cannot be changed. |
Contributor Insights rules |
100 rules per account. You can request a quota increase |
Custom metrics |
No quota. |
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. |
9 transactions per second (TPS) per Region. 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 TPS per Region for each of these operations. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. These quotas cannot be changed. |
DeleteDashboards request GetDashboard request ListDashboards request PutDashboard request |
10 TPS per Region for each of these operations. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. These quotas cannot be changed. |
10 TPS per Region. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. |
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5 TPS per Region. 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. |
50 TPS per Region. 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 The DPS is calculated based on estimated data points, not actual data points. The data point estimate is caculated using the requested time range, period, and retention period. This means that if the actual data points in the requested metrics are sparse or empty, throttling still occurs if the estimated data points exceed the quota. The DPS quota is per-Region. |
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A single This quota cannot be changed. |
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400 TPS per Region. 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 TPS per Region. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. This quota cannot be changed. |
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25 TPS per Region. 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 storage |
15 months. This quota cannot be changed. |
Metric data values |
The value of a metric data point must be within the range of -2^360 to 2^360. Special values (for example, NaN, +Infinity, -Infinity) are not supported. This quota cannot be changed. |
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. |
Period |
Maximum value is one day (86,400 seconds). This quota cannot be changed. |
PutMetricAlarm request |
3 TPS per Region. The maximum number of operation requests you can make per second without being throttled. You can request a quota increase |
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 |
Amazon SNS email notifications |
1,000/month/customer for free. |
For more information, see CloudWatch Quotas in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.