AWS Config Rule: CloudWatch Alarm Resource Check
CLOUDWATCH_ALARM_RESOURCE_CHECK
Fernando Honig
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Description: Checks whether the specified resource type has a CloudWatch alarm for the specified metric. For resource type, you can specify EBS volumes, EC2 instances, RDS clusters, or S3 buckets.
Trigger type: Periodic
AWS Region: All supported AWS regions
How to Resolve Manually
This Alarm will check your specified resources to see if a CloudWatch Alarm has been configured for the specified metric. The list of resources applicable for this are
- AWS::EC2::Volume
- AWS::EC2::Instance
- AWS::RDS::Cluster
- AWS::S3:Bucket
The `metricName` parameter will define which metric is associated with the alarm. For example, 'CPUUtilization' for EC2 Instances, or 'BucketSizeBytes' for S3 Buckets)
If you defined for example the Resource to be EC2 and the Metric to be CPUUtilization, then the check would iterate over all EC2 Instances and return NON-COMPLIANT if an instance did not have an Alarm associated with CloudWatch for CPUUtilization. You would then need to create one per Instance in order to revert this rule to COMPLIANT.
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