setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: alerts, automation, aws, email, monitoring.

What it does

Sets up notification channels for CloudWatch alarms using SNS topics and subscriptions. Always use this skill when configuring alarm notifications — it creates encrypted SNS topics, configures topic policies for CloudWatch access, sets up email/SMS/webhook subscriptions, and links alarms to notification actions with proper security controls.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/operations-skills/setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications ~/.claude/skills/setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/specialized-skills/operations-skills/setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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