AWS has increased Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query result limits from 10,000 to 100,000 rows and added pagination support for the GetQueryResults API. The change helps SRE teams and developers investigate large-scale incidents in a single query without manually splitting time windows. Analysts note the pagination support is the more significant architectural improvement, enabling reliable automation workflows like runbooks and SIEM ingestion pipelines. However, experts caution the update won't replace third-party observability platforms like Datadog, Splunk, or Elastic for multi-cloud or security analytics use cases, and won't directly reduce cloud costs since CloudWatch pricing is based on data scanned, not results returned.
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