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 ## Available Third-party backends
 - [amqp-backend](https://github.com/mrtazz/statsd-amqp-backend)
 - [atsd-backend](https://github.com/axibase/atsd-statsd-backend)
+- [aws-cloudwatch-backend](https://github.com/camitz/aws-cloudwatch-statsd-backend)
 - [node-bell](https://github.com/eleme/node-bell)
 - [couchdb-backend](https://github.com/sysadminmike/couch-statsd-backend)
 - [datadog-backend](https://github.com/DataDog/statsd-datadog-backend)