Mark, thank you for your reply. If Logstash is NOT part of our roadmap/data pipeline, are there any other options for sending data from MetricBeat to CloudWatch? I have seen many links about "metric-developer-guide", "beats-contributing", "creating-beat-from-metricbeat". If I have access to a developer, is it possible to create a "CloudWatch" output module to serve this purpose? Thanks, RHerring