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CloudWatch alarm uses Average statistic for a latency-shaped metric

AWS_OPS_011 MEDIUM Observability

What it checks

CloudWatch alarm uses Average statistic for a latency-shaped metric

Where it applies

Terraform: aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm

CloudFormation: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm

How to fix it

  1. Confirm existing mean and percentile objectives. If tail coverage is needed, add a separate p95/p99 alarm with a threshold derived from the workload SLO.

Frameworks

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