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title: "AWS metrics scrape jobs | Grafana Labs"
description: "Collect AWS CloudWatch metrics using scrape jobs."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## How it works

[AWS scrape jobs architecture: Grafana Cloud pulls metrics from CloudWatch API](cp-olly-aws-scrape-jobs-light.svg "AWS scrape jobs architecture: Grafana Cloud pulls metrics from CloudWatch API")

**Complexity:** Simple | **Infrastructure:** None | **Latency:** Minutes

Configure an AWS integration in the Grafana Cloud UI and provide IAM credentials, typically a read-only user or role. Choose which regions and CloudWatch namespaces to scrape, such as EC2, RDS, or Lambda. Grafana Cloud queries the CloudWatch API on a schedule, pulls the metrics in, and converts them to Prometheus format so you can query them with PromQL.

## Considerations

- Configured entirely in the Grafana Cloud UI, with no AWS infrastructure to deploy
- 60+ AWS services with automatic service discovery
- Metrics in Prometheus format for PromQL
- 1-5 minute latency
- CloudWatch API cost and rate limits at scale
- IAM setup for cross-account access

## When to use

- Quick start and evaluation
- Proof-of-concept setups
- Small environments with moderate metric volume

> **For ongoing production monitoring:** See [metric streams](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/01-cloud-metrics/08-aws-metrics-metric-streams/).

## Learning path

Configure this approach step by step.

[AWS metrics scrape jobs](/docs/learning-hub/intro-to-cp-olly/01-cloud-metrics/13-aws-journey/)