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Shailendra
Shailendra

Reputation: 349

Sending notification to an application from AWS

I have a requirement where I want to send notifications to a REST service from AWS every time a VM is started/stopped. Is it possible to achieve this using CloudWatch or any other AWS service?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 69

Answers (1)

helloV
helloV

Reputation: 52393

Yes. You can do it by using AWS Lambda in combination with AWS Cloudtrail.

Enable Cloudtrail and make it write to a S3 bucket. When a new object is written to that bucket by Cloudtrail, S3 can be made to trigger a lambda function.

In the lambda function, you parse the cloudtrail log and if you find a startinstance or stopinstance, you send a notification.

It may sound difficult, but it is pretty straightforward. I did this for a different reason. Check my answer here: Mandatory tagging when launching EC2 instance

Upvotes: 1

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