TL;DR: The pushback to using service accounts is very significant and I don't know if we'll be able to surmount it. Therefore, we should investigate pushing metrics from AWS to Datadog rather than pulling them.
CloudWatch Metric Streams is an appealing possibility, but we have no experience with it and therefore can't easily assess it.
We should figure out a PoC to determine whether it can meet our needs.
Description
See this Slack thread.
TL;DR: The pushback to using service accounts is very significant and I don't know if we'll be able to surmount it. Therefore, we should investigate pushing metrics from AWS to Datadog rather than pulling them.
CloudWatch Metric Streams is an appealing possibility, but we have no experience with it and therefore can't easily assess it.
We should figure out a PoC to determine whether it can meet our needs.
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