Working with CloudWatch events

In this recipe, we will learn how to create and use CloudWatch events. CloudWatch events provide us with a near real-time stream of system events from various AWS resources and we can create rules to take actions based on the event data.

Getting ready

We'll need to create an SNS topic with an email subscription to complete this recipe. We can do this by following the Creating an SNS topic to send emails recipe of this chapter.

How to do it...

We can create a CloudWatch event as follows:

1. Go to the CloudWatch service in the console.
...