Amazon CloudWatch now introduces a new CloudWatch Agent that integrates with AWS System Manager

Amazon CloudWatch has now added a new CloudWatch Agent that is integrated with the Amazon Web Service System Manager for simplified management and deployment, logs into one agent and improves the observability of the Elastic Cloud Compute Instances and the Virtual machines by attaining in-guest system metrics. By using the State Manager or SSM Run Command you can now the deploy the agent on the Elastic Cloud Compute instance, hybrid environments or on-premise servers for collecting both Window and Linux Operating System Metrics and logs include events logs and Windows Performance Counters.