Email notification using SNS topic and Lambda function in AWS

Question

I have my instances in AWS. I want to set notification system when my instance will stop automatically.

How can I do that?

Thank You

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can set notification system for your instances. You can use SNS topic and Lambda function to do that.

• Launch an EC2 instance.

• Create one SNS topic.

• Create IAM Role for Lambda to access SNS topic and CloudWatch logs.

• Create Cloudwatch events to schedule.

• Use below lambda code. 

import json
import boto3
client = boto3.client('sns')
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    topic_arn = 'arn:aws:sns:us-west-1:074796737877:Notification'
    message = 'Instance stop please look on'
    client.publish(TopicArn=topic_arn,Message=message)
    # TODO implement
    return {
        'statusCode': 200,
        'body': json.dumps('Hello from Lambda!')
    }

Hope this will help.

Thank You