MEDIUM

Ensure CloudWatch Alarms have SNS notifications configured

CloudWatch alarms should send notifications to SNS topics for alerting.

Security Impact

Alarms without notifications may go unnoticed during incidents.

How to Remediate

Configure alarm actions to notify SNS topics. Subscribe appropriate endpoints (email, PagerDuty, etc.).

Affected Resources

AWS::CloudWatch::AlarmAWS::SNS::Topic

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2PCI-DSS

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Check Details

Check ID
aws-cloudwatch-5
Service
Amazon CloudWatch
Category
Monitoring
Severity
MEDIUM

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