AWS provides monitoring on the system and instances. These status checks can be leveraged to alert on certain outages such as in an availability zone or region. You can configure status check alerts to email an administrator in such an event. This section outlines the configuration of status check alerts:

  1. Log in to the AWS console.

  2. Click Services.

  3. Under Compute, select EC2.

  4. In the navigation on the left, click Instances.

  5. Click the relevant instance to create an alarm for.

  6. Click Status Checks.

  7. Click Create Status Check Alarm.

  8. Complete the following fields:

  1. Type a name for the notification group.

  2. Type an email address for alarms to be sent to.

  3. Select Status Check Failed (Any) in the Whenever drop-down list.

  4. Keep the default interval of 2 consecutive period(s) of 1 Minute.

  5. Type a unique name for the alarm in the Name of alarm text box.

  6. Click Create Alarm.