Amazon CloudWatch · Rate Limits

Amazon CloudWatch Rate Limits

Amazon CloudWatch Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Amazon CloudWatch on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-11.

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, including GetMetricData requests — The maximum number of GetMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.; PutMetricData requests — The maximum number of PutMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.; GetMetricStatistics requests — The maximum number of GetMetricStatistics requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region..

Tagged areas include Amazon Web Services, CloudWatch, Monitoring, Observability, and Metrics.

7 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-11 — docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cl....
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Limits

GetMetricData requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of GetMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
GetMetricData
· per 1 second
500
PutMetricData requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of PutMetricData requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
PutMetricData
· per 1 second
500
GetMetricStatistics requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of GetMetricStatistics requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
GetMetricStatistics
· per 1 second
400
ListMetrics requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of ListMetrics requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
ListMetrics
· per 1 second
25
DescribeAlarms requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of DescribeAlarms requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
DescribeAlarms
· per 1 second
9
PutMetricAlarm requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of PutMetricAlarm requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
PutMetricAlarm
· per 1 second
3
DeleteAlarms requests per-account per-region
The maximum number of DeleteAlarms requests that you can make, per second, in this account in the current region.
DeleteAlarms
· per 1 second
3

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