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CloudWatch is definitely one of those "AWS Primitives" services that side effects others when having problems, something similar happened with DynamoDB some yea

• dodobirdlord 6y ago
  In early 2019 CloudWatch had a major outage that was particularly nasty, where instead of just outright failing to report metrics it reported a small percentage of metrics. As a result a lot of autoscaling groups and DynamoDB tables that were theoretically supposed to avoid scaling in during a metric outage still scaled in, because they saw it as a 90+% traffic reduction rather than a metric outage.