diff --git a/lib/common/monitoring/alarms/UsageAlarmFactory.ts b/lib/common/monitoring/alarms/UsageAlarmFactory.ts
index a02cd057..56fe009b 100644
--- a/lib/common/monitoring/alarms/UsageAlarmFactory.ts
+++ b/lib/common/monitoring/alarms/UsageAlarmFactory.ts
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ export class UsageAlarmFactory {
         props.treatMissingDataOverride ?? TreatMissingData.MISSING,
       comparisonOperator:
         props.comparisonOperatorOverride ??
-        ComparisonOperator.LESS_THAN_LOWER_THRESHOLD,
+        ComparisonOperator.LESS_THAN_THRESHOLD,
       ...props,
       disambiguator,
       threshold: props.minCount,
diff --git a/test/monitoring/aws-cloudwatch/__snapshots__/LogMonitoring.test.ts.snap b/test/monitoring/aws-cloudwatch/__snapshots__/LogMonitoring.test.ts.snap
index 4a616098..ee793f33 100644
--- a/test/monitoring/aws-cloudwatch/__snapshots__/LogMonitoring.test.ts.snap
+++ b/test/monitoring/aws-cloudwatch/__snapshots__/LogMonitoring.test.ts.snap
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Object {
               Object {
                 "Ref": "AWS::Region",
               },
-              "\\",\\"metrics\\":[[\\"AWS/Logs\\",\\"IncomingLogEvents\\",\\"LogGroupName\\",\\"DummyLogGroup\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Logs\\",\\"stat\\":\\"SampleCount\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Logs undefined 20 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":20,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}}]}",
+              "\\",\\"metrics\\":[[\\"AWS/Logs\\",\\"IncomingLogEvents\\",\\"LogGroupName\\",\\"DummyLogGroup\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Logs\\",\\"stat\\":\\"SampleCount\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Logs < 20 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":20,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}}]}",
             ],
           ],
         },
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ Object {
         "ActionsEnabled": true,
         "AlarmDescription": "The count is too low.",
         "AlarmName": "Test-DummyLogGroup-Usage-Count-Warning",
-        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanLowerThreshold",
+        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanThreshold",
         "DatapointsToAlarm": 3,
         "EvaluationPeriods": 3,
         "Metrics": Array [
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Object {
               Object {
                 "Ref": "AWS::Region",
               },
-              "\\",\\"metrics\\":[[\\"AWS/Logs\\",\\"IncomingLogEvents\\",\\"LogGroupName\\",\\"DummyLogGroup\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Logs\\",\\"stat\\":\\"SampleCount\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Logs undefined 20 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":20,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}}]}",
+              "\\",\\"metrics\\":[[\\"AWS/Logs\\",\\"IncomingLogEvents\\",\\"LogGroupName\\",\\"DummyLogGroup\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Logs\\",\\"stat\\":\\"SampleCount\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Logs < 20 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":20,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}}]}",
             ],
           ],
         },
diff --git a/test/monitoring/aws-lambda/__snapshots__/LambdaFunctionMonitoring.test.ts.snap b/test/monitoring/aws-lambda/__snapshots__/LambdaFunctionMonitoring.test.ts.snap
index c979a8ce..5ad1a042 100644
--- a/test/monitoring/aws-lambda/__snapshots__/LambdaFunctionMonitoring.test.ts.snap
+++ b/test/monitoring/aws-lambda/__snapshots__/LambdaFunctionMonitoring.test.ts.snap
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ Object {
               Object {
                 "Ref": "Function76856677",
               },
-              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations undefined 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
+              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations < 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
               Object {
                 "Ref": "AWS::Region",
               },
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ Object {
         "ActionsEnabled": true,
         "AlarmDescription": "The count is too low.",
         "AlarmName": "Test-DummyLambda-Usage-Count-Warning",
-        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanLowerThreshold",
+        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanThreshold",
         "DatapointsToAlarm": 30,
         "EvaluationPeriods": 30,
         "Metrics": Array [
@@ -1350,7 +1350,7 @@ Object {
               Object {
                 "Ref": "Function76856677",
               },
-              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations undefined 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
+              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations < 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
               Object {
                 "Ref": "AWS::Region",
               },
@@ -2080,7 +2080,7 @@ Object {
         "ActionsEnabled": true,
         "AlarmDescription": "The count is too low.",
         "AlarmName": "Test-DummyLambda-Usage-Count-Warning",
-        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanLowerThreshold",
+        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanThreshold",
         "DatapointsToAlarm": 30,
         "EvaluationPeriods": 30,
         "Metrics": Array [
@@ -2548,7 +2548,7 @@ Object {
               Object {
                 "Ref": "Function76856677",
               },
-              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations undefined 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
+              "\\",{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers\\",\\"stat\\":\\"Sum\\"}]],\\"annotations\\":{\\"horizontal\\":[{\\"label\\":\\"Throttles > 2 for 20 datapoints within 100 minutes\\",\\"value\\":2,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Invocations < 5 for 30 datapoints within 150 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Concurrent > 10 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":10,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"},{\\"label\\":\\"Provisioned Concurrency Spillovers > 5 for 3 datapoints within 15 minutes\\",\\"value\\":5,\\"yAxis\\":\\"left\\"}]},\\"yAxis\\":{\\"left\\":{\\"min\\":0,\\"label\\":\\"Count\\",\\"showUnits\\":false}}}},{\\"type\\":\\"metric\\",\\"width\\":8,\\"height\\":5,\\"x\\":8,\\"y\\":6,\\"properties\\":{\\"view\\":\\"timeSeries\\",\\"title\\":\\"Iterator\\",\\"region\\":\\"",
               Object {
                 "Ref": "AWS::Region",
               },
@@ -3278,7 +3278,7 @@ Object {
         "ActionsEnabled": true,
         "AlarmDescription": "The count is too low.",
         "AlarmName": "Test-DummyLambda-Usage-Count-Warning",
-        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanLowerThreshold",
+        "ComparisonOperator": "LessThanThreshold",
         "DatapointsToAlarm": 30,
         "EvaluationPeriods": 30,
         "Metrics": Array [