It is a secure, production-ready AWS supported distribution of the open-source project OpenTelemetry
Provides a single set of APIs, libraries, agents and collector services
Collects distributed traces and metrics from our apps
Collects metadata from our AWS resources and services
Has auto-instrumented agents to collect traces without changing our code
Traces/metrics can be sent to multiple AWS services and partner solutions
We can migrate from X-Ray to AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry if we want to standardize with open-source APIs from Telemetry or send traces tro multiple destinations simultaneously