diff --git a/docker/docker-compose.yml b/docker/docker-compose.yml
index 3df0f7d8..f8c7fae0 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose.yml
@@ -34,13 +34,7 @@ services:
       - "./entity-api/nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d"
     networks:
       - gateway_hubmap
-    # Send docker logs to AWS CloudWatch
-    logging: 
-      driver: awslogs
-      options:
-        awslogs-region: us-east-1
-        awslogs-group: entity-api-docker-logs
-        awslogs-stream: ${LOG_STREAM}
+
 
 networks:
   # This is the network created by gateway to enable communicaton between multiple docker-compose projects
diff --git a/docker/example.env b/docker/example.env
deleted file mode 100644
index b19e3e04..00000000
--- a/docker/example.env
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-LOG_STREAM=DEV
diff --git a/src/uwsgi.ini b/src/uwsgi.ini
index f97e2c9e..d422a13f 100644
--- a/src/uwsgi.ini
+++ b/src/uwsgi.ini
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ chdir = /usr/src/app/src
 # Application's callbale
 module = wsgi:application
 
-# Delegate the logging to the master process 
-# Send logs to stdout instead of file so docker picks it up and writes to AWS CloudWatch
+# Centralize logging through the master process
 log-master=true
+logto = /usr/src/app/log/uwsgi-entity-api.log
 
 # Master with 12 worker processes (based on CPU number)
 master = true
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ stats = localhost:9191
 
 # Makes the stats server accessible via HTTP rather than a raw socket,
 # allowing standard tools like curl to query it
-stats-http = true
\ No newline at end of file
+stats-http = true