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title: AWS CloudWatch Logs
description: Learn more about the AWS CloudWatch Logs pack.
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> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.datadoghq.com/llms.txt).

# AWS CloudWatch Logs

## Overview{% #overview %}

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AWS CloudWatch Logs captures log streams from Lambda, ECS, and more.

What this pack does:

- Parses CloudWatch log event streams
- Splits multi-record events into clean entries
- Removes CWL envelope fields