CloudWatch alarms with dimensions (AWS CLI)

In the previous recipe, we created a CloudWatch alarm for a metric without any dimensions. In this small recipe, we will learn how to create a CloudWatch alarm for a metric with dimensions, and we will then verify the alarm by sending some data with dimensions.

Getting ready

The following are the prerequisites for this recipe:

• A working AWS account.
• Access to AWS Management Console.
• You should have configured AWS CLI as discussed in the recipe Your First Lambda with AWS CLI in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS.
• You should have created a metric with the name FailedLogins and namespace ServerlessProgrammingCookbook following the previous recipe Your first...