What's New Cloud: Amazon CloudWatch Added Deletion Protection for Log Groups
AWS just introduced a helpful new capability in Amazon CloudWatch: you can now enable deletion protection on your log groups
Welcome back to another edition of the What’s New Cloud Newsletter, where I break down the latest updates across AWS, automation, and DevOps.
AWS just introduced a helpful new capability in Amazon CloudWatch: you can now enable deletion protection on your log groups.
What’s New
This feature protects your critical logs from being removed by mistake. Once deletion protection is turned on, a log group can’t be deleted until you manually disable the setting.
It works across all AWS commercial Regions and can be applied during log group creation or added later. You can manage it through the CloudWatch console, AWS CLI, CDK, or SDKs.
Why This Matters
This update brings:
Extra safety for audit, compliance, and operational logs
Stronger guardrails against accidental data loss
More controlled retention for production logs used in investigations and debugging
For teams handling sensitive workloads or strict compliance requirements, this is a straightforward but meaningful improvement.
My Take
This is a solid quality-of-life update for engineers and security teams. It reduces the risk of losing important logs and gives organizations tighter control over data that must be preserved.
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This feture feels long overdue. I've seen too many production incidents where someone accidentaly deleted a log group during debugging and we lost critcal data for postmortems. The ability to protect logs at the group level is way more practical than relying on IAM policies alone. Does this work across diferent regions if you have multi-region logging setups?