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Let's go through some important concepts related to CloudWatch dashboards:

  • We can add metrics from different services in the same dashboard widget and then correlate their usages.
  • Within the widget configuration, we can set the refresh intervals in order to update data in the widget UI:

The preceding screenshot shows the duration and the type dropdown.

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