# Amazon CloudWatch Logs billing and cost
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For detailed information about how to analyze your costs and usage for CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch, and for best practices about how to reduce your costs, see [CloudWatch billing and cost](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/cloudwatch_billing.html). 

For more information about pricing, see [Amazon CloudWatch Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/).

When you sign up for AWS, you can get started with CloudWatch Logs for free using the [AWS Free Tier](http://aws.amazon.com/free/).

Standard rates apply for logs stored by other services using CloudWatch Logs (for example, Amazon VPC flow logs and Lambda logs).