AWS just rolled out a major upgrade to Amazon CloudWatch — and it’s a big win for centralized logging and DevOps teams across large organizations.
You can now automatically enable VPC Flow Logs to CloudWatch across your entire AWS Organization, with flexible scoping and tagging!
💡 What’s New?
With the new enablement rules in CloudWatch Telemetry Config, you can:
✅ Automatically create flow logs for existing and new VPCs
✅ Define rules by:
- Entire Organization
- Specific AWS Accounts
- Specific Resource Tags
✅ Ensure consistent network traffic monitoring with no manual steps.
🛠️ Example Use Case: Tag-Based Flow Log Enablement
Let’s say your central DevOps team wants visibility into all production traffic across AWS accounts.
Just create an enablement rule that targets all VPCs tagged with:
env: production
Now, whenever a matching VPC is created, CloudWatch Flow Logs are automatically enabled — no manual setup required.
⚙️ How It Works Under the Hood
- AWS uses Config Service-Linked Recorders to continuously monitor resources.
- When a VPC matches your enablement rule (tag/account/org scope), it auto-enables logging to CloudWatch.
- Logs go directly into CloudWatch Logs for immediate visibility.
🚀 Why This Matters
🔒 Improved Security & Compliance
🔁 Automatic Coverage for New VPCs
🧩 Tag-Based Flexibility
🧠 No More Missed Logs Due to Manual Oversight
📊 Centralized Insights Across All Accounts
🔍 TL;DR
With organization-wide VPC flow logs in CloudWatch:
- Say goodbye to scattered or missing logs
- Automatically monitor all relevant VPCs using simple tagging
- Standardize network visibility across all your AWS environments
What do you think about this update?
Are you using centralized flow logs already, or is this the push you needed to implement them?
Let’s discuss in the comments! 💬👇
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