Yet Another CloudWatch Exporter (YACE), an open-source project initially started by Thomas Peitz in 2018, has become a Prometheus community project, marking a significant milestone in its development and enhancing its contribution to the Prometheus ecosystem. This transition will provide YACE with increased visibility, sustainability, and greater alignment with Prometheus best practices, benefiting from community oversight and contributions. Grafana Labs, a significant user and contributor to YACE, has played a crucial role in its growth by implementing features like improved CloudWatch metric matching to AWS resources and adopting AWS SDK v2. YACE's integration into Grafana Labs' AWS Observability app underscores its importance due to its ability to discover AWS resources and their related CloudWatch metrics, with future plans from Grafana Labs to continue seamless contributions and assist in migrating from cloudwatch_exporter to YACE. The project’s transition to prometheus-community signifies a promising future for YACE in the AWS observability realm.