Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
Managed Prometheus
A Prometheus-compatible service to collect, store, and query (PromQL) container metrics at large scale, with automatic scaling and highly durable storage.
- Cost$$ Medium
- Difficulty●●●●●
- Costs money when idle?A little
- Serverless
Think of it asLike renting an archive for utility meter logbooks that expands automatically as the number of meters grows.
When to use it
✓ Use it when
Monitoring EKS/Kubernetes with Prometheus without operating it yourself.
✗ Avoid it when
Only need basic AWS service metrics → CloudWatch.
Common uses
- Metrics for EKS clusters
- Replace hard-to-scale self-hosted Prometheus
- Pair with Managed Grafana for dashboards
What does it cost?
- Pricing model: Charged by metric samples ingested, GB stored, and samples queried.
⚠️ Cost traps
High-cardinality metrics (many labels) make sample counts skyrocket.
