diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClient.java b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClient.java
index 7d9e54c01c..915809f1e5 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClient.java
+++ b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClient.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
 @FormParams(keys = "Version", values = CloudWatchAsyncClient.VERSION)
 @VirtualHost
 public interface CloudWatchAsyncClient {
-   public static final String VERSION = "2009-05-15";
+   public static final String VERSION = "2010-08-01";
 
    /**
     * @see CloudWatchClient#getMetricStatisticsInRegion
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ public interface CloudWatchAsyncClient {
    @FormParams(keys = "Action", values = "GetMetricStatistics")
    ListenableFuture<? extends Set<Datapoint>> getMetricStatisticsInRegion(
          @EndpointParam(parser = RegionToEndpointOrProviderIfNull.class) @Nullable String region,
-         @FormParam("MeasureName") String measureName,
+         @FormParam("MetricName") String metricName,
+         @FormParam("Namespace") String namespace,
          @FormParam("StartTime") @ParamParser(ISO8601Format.class) Date startTime,
          @FormParam("EndTime") @ParamParser(ISO8601Format.class) Date endTime, @FormParam("Period") int period,
          @FormParam("Statistics.member.1") String statistics);
diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClient.java b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClient.java
index 276bcef2d7..e39b54af39 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClient.java
+++ b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClient.java
@@ -51,13 +51,15 @@ public interface CloudWatchClient {
     * 
     * @param region
     *           region to gather metrics in
-    * @param measureName
+    * @param metricName
     *           The measure name that corresponds to the measure for the gathered metric.
     *           <p/>
     *           note
     *           <p/>
     *           Must be a valid collected metric with the corresponding measure name, please see
     *           Available Amazon CloudWatch Metrics
+    * @param namespace
+    *           The namespace of the metric (e.g. AWS/EC2)
     * @param startTime
     *           The timestamp of the first datapoint to return, inclusive. We round your value down
     *           to the nearest minute. You can set your start time for more than two weeks in the
@@ -70,7 +72,7 @@ public interface CloudWatchClient {
     * @param statistics
     *           The statistics to be returned for the given metric. ex. Average
     */
-   Set<Datapoint> getMetricStatisticsInRegion(@Nullable String region, String measureName, Date startTime,
-            Date endTime, int period, String statistics);
+   Set<Datapoint> getMetricStatisticsInRegion(@Nullable String region, String metricName, String namespace,
+            Date startTime, Date endTime, int period, String statistics);
 
 }
diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClientTest.java b/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClientTest.java
index 72b549aed7..d061250a05 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClientTest.java
+++ b/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchAsyncClientTest.java
@@ -62,21 +62,21 @@ public class CloudWatchAsyncClientTest extends RestClientTest<CloudWatchAsyncCli
    public void testRegisterInstancesWithMeasure() throws SecurityException, NoSuchMethodException, IOException {
       Date date = new Date(10000000l);
       Method method = CloudWatchAsyncClient.class.getMethod("getMetricStatisticsInRegion", String.class, String.class,
-            Date.class, Date.class, int.class, String.class);
-      HttpRequest request = processor.createRequest(method, (String) null, "CPUUtilization", date, date, 60, "Average");
+            String.class, Date.class, Date.class, int.class, String.class);
+      HttpRequest request = processor.createRequest(method, (String) null, "CPUUtilization", "AWS/EC2", date, date, 60, "Average");
 
       assertRequestLineEquals(request, "POST https://monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ HTTP/1.1");
       assertNonPayloadHeadersEqual(request, "Host: monitoring.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\n");
       try {
          assertPayloadEquals(
                request,
-               "Version=2009-05-15&Action=GetMetricStatistics&Statistics.member.1=Average&StartTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&MeasureName=CPUUtilization&EndTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&Period=60",
+               "Version=2010-08-01&Action=GetMetricStatistics&Statistics.member.1=Average&StartTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&Namespace=AWS%2FEC2&&MetricName=CPUUtilization&EndTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&Period=60",
                "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", false);
       } catch (AssertionError e) {
          // mvn 3.0 osx 10.6.5 somehow sorts differently
          assertPayloadEquals(
                request,
-               "Version=2009-05-15&Action=GetMetricStatistics&Statistics.member.1=Average&StartTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&MeasureName=CPUUtilization&Period=60&EndTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z",
+               "Version=2010-08-01&Action=GetMetricStatistics&Statistics.member.1=Average&Period=60&Namespace=AWS%2FEC2&MetricName=CPUUtilization&StartTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z&EndTime=1970-01-01T02%3A46%3A40Z",
                "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", false);
       }
       assertResponseParserClassEquals(method, request, ParseSax.class);
diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClientLiveTest.java b/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
index 1876f31920..cf6ead4030 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
+++ b/apis/cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/CloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.jclouds.Constants;
 import org.jclouds.cloudwatch.domain.Datapoint;
-import org.jclouds.logging.Logger;
 import org.jclouds.logging.log4j.config.Log4JLoggingModule;
 import org.jclouds.rest.RestContext;
 import org.jclouds.rest.RestContextFactory;
@@ -86,16 +85,17 @@ public class CloudWatchClientLiveTest {
 
    @Test
    protected void testGetMetricStatisticsInRegion() {
-      getMetricStatisticsInRegion(null);
+      getEC2MetricStatisticsInRegion(null);
    }
 
-   protected void getMetricStatisticsInRegion(String region) {
+   protected Set<Datapoint> getEC2MetricStatisticsInRegion(String region) {
       Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
-      cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, -1);
+      cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, -60 * 24 * 3); // 3 days
 
       Set<Datapoint> datapoints = client.getMetricStatisticsInRegion(
-         region, "CPUUtilization", cal.getTime(), new Date(), 60, "Average");
-      assert datapoints != null;
+         region, "CPUUtilization", "AWS/EC2", cal.getTime(), new Date(), 180, "Average");
+
+      return checkNotNull(datapoints, "Got null response for EC2 datapoints in region ");
    }
 
    @AfterTest
diff --git a/providers/aws-cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/cloudwatch/AWSCloudWatchClientLiveTest.java b/providers/aws-cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/cloudwatch/AWSCloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
index e494ad5403..5c98f38833 100644
--- a/providers/aws-cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/cloudwatch/AWSCloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/aws-cloudwatch/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/cloudwatch/AWSCloudWatchClientLiveTest.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class AWSCloudWatchClientLiveTest extends CloudWatchClientLiveTest {
    @Test
    public void testGetMetricStatisticsInRegion() {
       for (String region : Region.DEFAULT_REGIONS) {
-         getMetricStatisticsInRegion(region);
+         getEC2MetricStatisticsInRegion(region);
       }
    }
 }
diff --git a/providers/aws-ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/AWSEC2ComputeServiceLiveTest.java b/providers/aws-ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/AWSEC2ComputeServiceLiveTest.java
index 9b10835a50..8558c8d2c6 100644
--- a/providers/aws-ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/AWSEC2ComputeServiceLiveTest.java
+++ b/providers/aws-ec2/src/test/java/org/jclouds/aws/ec2/compute/AWSEC2ComputeServiceLiveTest.java
@@ -155,8 +155,9 @@ public class AWSEC2ComputeServiceLiveTest extends EC2ComputeServiceLiveTest {
 
          try {
             Set<Datapoint> datapoints = monitoringContext.getApi().getMetricStatisticsInRegion(instance.getRegion(),
-                     "CPUUtilization", before, new Date(), 60, "Average");
-            assert datapoints != null;
+                     "CPUUtilization", "AWS/EC2", before, new Date(), 60, "Average");
+            assert datapoints != null && datapoints.size() > 0;
+
          } finally {
             monitoringContext.close();
          }