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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

CloudWatch Logs Gets Smart Auto-Indexing for Faster Queries

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes your frequently queried fields without manual setup, making Insights queries faster and reducing data scans. These auto-indexed fields don't count toward your 20-field limit and refresh as your query patterns change—available across all AWS Regions at no extra cost.

source: [aws/whats-new]