New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces a new integrated analytics experience and zero-ETL integration between Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service. This integration simplifies log data analysis and visualization without data duplication, streamlining log management while reducing technical overhead and operational costs. CloudWatch Logs customers now have access to two additional query languages beyond CloudWatch Logs Insights QL, while OpenSearch customers can query CloudWatch logs in place without creating separate extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines. 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…