python - Cloudwatch Alarm for Aurora Data Dump Automation to S3 Bucket

Question

I need your advice on something that I'm working on as a part of my work.

I'm working on automating the Aurora Dump to S3 bucket every midnight. As a part of it, I have created a ec2 instance that generates the dump and I have written a python script using boto3 which moves the dump to S3 bucket every night.

I need to intimate a list of developers if the data dump doesn't take place for some reason.

As of now, I'm posting a message to SNS topic which notifies the developers if the backup doesn't happen. But I need to do this with Cloudwatch and I'm not sure how to do it.

Your help will be much appreciated. ! Thanks!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65559529/cloudwatch-alarm-for-aurora-data-dump-automation-to-s3-bucket

Answer 1

I have created a custom metric to which I have attached a Cloudwatch alarm and it gets triggered if there's an issue in data backup process.