Configuring a response to an event

The detection of an event is only the first part of the automated process. Next, we need to configure a response to define what action will be called upon when the event has been detected. A response can be called from a number of different AWS services, allowing you to utilize a variety of services to carry out a specific operation:

1. On the right-hand side of the console, you need to click on Add target*:

2. Your targets are your event-response mechanisms, and the available targets include a number of different services, such as SNS topics, CloudWatch log groups, Kinesis streams, an SQS queue, an SSM run command, Lambda functions, code pipelines, and many more:

In this demonstration, I have selected two different targets, as you can see in the preceding screenshot:

• • The first target I have selected is SNS topic, and I defined a topic that I want to be selected called SecurityChecks. This is a topic that I have created that a security team...