Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that enables the sending of notifications via various communication channels. Such as SMS, email, or HTTP endpoints, to subscribed recipients. This article will discuss how to Create Simple Notification Service (SNS) Notification on AWS. Please see SSL Encrypted Communications explained, how to disable Ads in Windows 11, and How to Disable Chrome Browser Notifications on Windows.
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SNS Notification Creation
To create SNS via alerts when new servers (EC2) instances are created or terminated on AWS. Navigate to CloudWatch Service on AWS:
Step 1: Create a new Rule for EC2 API call “RunInstances”.
Step 2: “EC2 Instancestate-change notification” with status “running” if you want to get emails for any instance that starts up.
- Configure an SNS topic as destination. You can also customise the message using data from the event.
- Subscribe to the SNS topic with your email address to start receiving events.
Enter ‘rule name’ and description below
After you fill in all the details, a success window confirms that all rules are configured correctly. And you create the Simple Notification Service (SNS) notification on AWS.
Then you can subscribe to the SNS topic via email, SMS etc.
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