[loevborg]

Can you tail cloudwatch logs in real time, ideally from the command line?

For debugging situations, I'd like to send a request to my app server and then see the server response live, or with little delay.

[zedpm]

Yes, I use it in just that way. I recommend installing awslogs[0] on your workstation. Then, to tail a log group, you'd run

   awslogs get <group_name> -w

The latency is pretty low and this generally works well. You can apply filters etc. as well if needed.

[0]: https://github.com/jorgebastida/awslogs