Side‑by‑side look at the native observability services of the two biggest public clouds, with emphasis on recent AI‑related pricing updates.
Updated October 22, 2026
AWS CloudWatch
Organizations fully entrenched in AWS, especially those leveraging the new AI‑centric integrations like Google TPUs in Meta.
Azure Monitor
Hybrid or multi‑cloud customers who need tighter Azure‑specific insights and lower per‑metric costs.
Both services are mature, but CloudWatch’s recent pricing tweaks for AI data and its tighter coupling with emerging TPU workloads give it a slight edge for pure AWS shops. Azure Monitor shines for hybrid scenarios and cost‑sensitive metric ingestion.
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