OpenTelemetry gateway on AWS — one endpoint for all your traces

AWS is shipping an OpenTelemetry gateway on the managed service. You point your apps at a single endpoint and the gateway fans out traces, metrics, and logs to whichever backend you're using — Datadog, New Relic, Honeycomb, Prometheus, whatever. No more writing a different collector for each vendor.

It runs on the same OTLP standard your apps already speak, so the switch is a config change, not a rewrite. For teams juggling multiple observability tools, that's the kind of thing that saves hours every week.

Why this matters for us: side hustles and small shops can't afford five different observability bills — this lets one pipeline do the work without locking you into a single vendor.