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Why Cloud Contracts Now Charge for Managed Prometheus Active Series
AWS recently updated pricing for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, introducing a per-hour charge for active metric series beyond the free tier. This episode explains what 'active series' means, why the change happened, and how it impacts observability costs for teams using Prometheus-compatible monitoring. We break down the math using a real-world example of a Kubernetes cluster with 2 million active series, and discuss strategies to reduce billing—like relabeling rules, metric aggregation, and setting retention limits. If you're running observability at scale, this is the…
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