Question

How do I create an SNS topic while creating an alarm for my Load Balancer using with CloudWatch console?

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

1. Open the Amazon EC2 consoleOn the navigation pane, under LOAD BALANCING, choose Load Balancers.
2. Select your load balancer.
3. On the Monitoring tab, choose Create Alarm.
4. If you have an SNS topic that you want to use, select it from Send a notification to. Otherwise, create an SNS topic as follows:
5. Choose create topic.
6. For Send a notification to, type a name for your topic.
7. For With these recipients, type the email addresses of the recipients to notify, separated by commas. You can enter up to 10 email addresses. Each recipient receives an email from Amazon SNS with a link to subscribe to the SNS topic in order to receive notifications.