StationX
Start free

Browse › AWS Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation SOA.1

Configure an SNS Notification for a CloudWatch Alarm

Guided

Part of AWS Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation SOA.1 Topic: AWS

Counts towardsAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate badgeCompTIA Cloud+ badge

Access

StationX Infrastructure Labs — 3 attempts per lab

🔒 Add StationX Infrastructure Labs — $149 / year · 3 attempts per lab

Already have access? Sign in.

New to this? Try a free practice lab — a scripted hacking challenge in your browser, no account needed.

What you'll do

In this challenge, you will configure Amazon CloudWatch to generate an alarm and then send you a notification when 404 errors reach a specific level.

  1. Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) topic
  2. Create an email subscription for the topic
  3. Create a CloudWatch metric and alarm for 404 errors on an Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instance
  4. Simulate errors on a website by attempting to connect to a nonexistent page
  5. Monitor the CloudWatch alarm until it is triggered
  6. Verify that you received a notification email

Note: Once you begin the lab, you will not be able to pause, save, or exit and then return to your lab. Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the lab before you start.

Roadmaps that use this lab