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Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces account-level retention policies

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AWS·Nov 9, 2026, 10:15 PMFeatureAI-assisted summary

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Adds account-level retention policies for CloudWatch Logs, enabling a single policy to define retention for all or selected log groups.
Policies can target groups by name prefix, apply to existing or new groups, and the longest retention period wins; up to 20 policies per account/region.
Available in all commercial AWS regions (except Middle East Bahrain/UAE) at no extra cost, manageable via console, CLI, and SDKs.

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