While e-mail alarms may not be the most scalable of all alarms (due to the amount of e-mail most people get), they are the easiest to integrate—almost everyone has an e-mail address!
This recipe uses two AWS services:
- CloudWatch (CW)
- Simple Notification Service (SNS)
As you will often want to create alarms for metrics after viewing them through the CloudWatch dashboard, this recipe will use the console to create the alarms.