AWS monitoring can be a challenging task for organizations that rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host their applications and data. While AWS provides native monitoring tools like CloudWatch, these solutions often fall short of offering an efficient, centralized way to collect and analyze data from all AWS services. This can lead to a fragmented monitoring stack, limited analytics, and difficulties in ingesting data into AWS's native tools, resulting in bloated cloud bills. As a result, complex AWS monitoring stacks can severely hinder engineers' ability to optimize performance, leading to customer dissatisfaction and ultimately, business losses. However, there is a better approach to handling AWS monitoring, with solutions like ChaosSearch transforming S3 into a central location for data lake and analytics, providing an efficient way to monitor and analyze AWS services.