[pentlander]

I don't think that's true, internally there was a long term plan to bring cloudwatch up to par with internal metrics and alarming systems. At the time when I left Amazon, there were some shims to use internal dashboards and alarms with cloudwatch data. The eventual goal was for the whole company to move to cloudwatch instead of maintaining two systems.

[somebodythere]

What I don't get was the broad internal push to building on AWS directly, which was great most of the time, but came with big downgrades in metrics and alarms if you were to use the AWS equivalent.