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AWS Certified Security – Specialty SCS-C03 · Domain 1: Detection

Alerting with Amazon EventBridge rules, SNS notifications and CloudWatch Logs metric filters

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Last reviewed September 29, 2026 · Leer en español

Detection is wasted if nobody hears about it. AWS offers two main paths from an event to a person or an automated response: EventBridge rules that react to individual events, and CloudWatch metric filters with alarms that react to patterns and counts.

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