Which is cheaper, Amazon CloudWatch or Azure Azure Monitor?

Azure is cheaper in 1 of 4 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 29.1%.

How do Amazon CloudWatch and Azure Azure Monitor compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Aug 15, 2026AWSAzure

Overall Winner

Azure

AWS Wins

Azure Wins

Ties

Azure wins 1 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 29.1% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000002/hr to $0.2500/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Metric workloads

Comparing Amazon CloudWatch and Azure Azure Monitor across 4 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon CloudWatch	Azure Azure Azure Monitor	Diff	Cheapest
Application Signals - Application Signals	$0.0000/hr USE1-Application-Signals ($0.00/mo)	$0.0000/hr Notifications - Notifications Web hook ($0.00/mo)	+75.0%	Tie
Metric - Metric	$0.0800/hr CW:OTEL:Bytes:EKS-CI ($58.40/mo)	$0.0468/hr SMS Country Code 506 - SMS Country Code 506 Notification ($34.16/mo)	+41.5%	Azure
Alarm - Alarm	$0.1000/hr CW:AlarmMonitorUsage ($73.00/mo)	$0.1000/hr Alerts - Alerts Resource Monitored at 10 Minute Frequency ($73.00/mo)	0.0%	Tie
Data Payload - Data Payload	$0.2500/hr USE1-VendedLogIA-Bytes-CFLogs ($182.50/mo)	$0.2500/hr Platform Logs - Platform Logs Data Processed ($182.50/mo)	0.0%	Tie