CloudWatch

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General

General information about the service.

Description

Amazon CloudWatch monitors AWS resources and applications, providing data and actionable insights.

Service Namespace

AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm

ARN Pattern

arn:aws:cloudwatch:{region}:{account}:alarm:{alarm-name}

References

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Naming Convention

cw-

Length

1-255

Valid Characters

Letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores

Scope

region

Code

Deploy your infrastructure as code using your preferred tooling.

Official Documentation Terraform

terraform

1resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "main" {
2  alarm_name          = "cw-${var.environment}-cpu"
3  comparison_operator = "GreaterThanThreshold"
4  evaluation_periods  = 2
5  metric_name         = "CPUUtilization"
6  namespace           = "AWS/EC2"
7  period              = 120
8  statistic           = "Average"
9  threshold           = 80
10}

Utilities

Utilities to support app deployment or configuration.

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