Day-46: Set up CloudWatch alarms and SNS topic in AWS

What is Amazon CloudWatch?

Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, which are variables you can measure for your resources and applications.

Read more about Cloudwatch from the official documentation here

What is Amazon SNS?

Amazon Simple Notification Service is a notification service provided as part of Amazon Web Services since 2010. It provides a low-cost infrastructure for the mass delivery of messages, predominantly to mobile users.

Read more about it here

Task :

• Create a CloudWatch alarm that monitors your billing and sends an email to you when it reaches $2.

• Navigate to the CloudWatch section and then billing and then send an email to you when it reaches to $2

  

  Select the values which are needed by it

  

  Give the details and the Gmail to get the notification

  

  In your inbox you can check the conformation mail

  

  

  Give the name and other conformation

  

  Preview and create it

  

  You can see the alarm is created

  

  

  • Delete your billing Alarm that you created now.

(Now you also know how to delete as well. )

(You can keep it for your future use)

Keep growing your AWS knowledge💥🙌

Happy Learning! :)

Mohammed Muqafamuddin.