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title: "Data source key takeaways | Grafana Labs"
description: "Key takeaways for querying cloud data with a data source."
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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).

## Key takeaways

- A data source queries your cloud APIs in place, so there’s no extra ingestion or storage cost, and the data stays in your cloud provider. You still build dashboards, set alerts, and correlate with your other Grafana data.
- One data source covers each provider:
  
  - **AWS CloudWatch**: metrics and logs.
  - **Azure Monitor**: metrics and logs.
  - **GCP**: Cloud Monitoring for metrics, Cloud Logging for logs.