Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon CloudWatch agent adds Shared Memory Metrics

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Amazon CloudWatch agent now collects shared memory utilization metrics from Linux hosts on EC2 or on-premises environments. This addresses a monitoring gap for enterprise applications like SAP HANA and Oracle RDBMS that heavily use shared memory segments. The new capability helps accurately assess total memory utilization, optimize configurations, and make informed instance sizing decisions. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud regions.