You have provided AWS consulting service to a financial company that just migrated its major on-premises products to AWS. Last week, there was an outage ofAWS hardware which impacted one of the EBS volumes. This failure was alerted in the AWS Personal Health Dashboard. However, it took the team several hours to be aware of that. The company asks for a solution to notify the team when there is an open issue happening in AWS Personal Health Dashboard. Which approach should you recommend?

Answer options:

A.Create a CloudWatch Event Rule that filters AWS Health Event and triggers an SNS notification when there is a new event.
B.In the AWS Personal Health Dashboard console, configure an SNS notification when specific open issues appear.
C.Configure a Lambda function that periodically checks open issues via AWS Health API and triggers an SNS notification if a new issue has been found.
D.Create a new CloudWatch Event that monitors Trusted Advisor service and triggers an SNS notification when there is a new issue.

Correct Answer – A
AWS Personal Health Dashboard can show AWS information such as open issues, schedule changes, and event logs that may be relevant to your AWS resources:
The most convenient way to set up notifications is based on AWS CloudWatch Events. The details can be checked in https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/cloudwatch-events-health.html.
Option A is CORRECT: As below screenshot, a CloudWatch Event rule is created based on AWS Health service, and the user can identify specific event service such as EBS:
Option B is incorrect: Because there is no way to configure notifications directly in AWS Personal Health Dashboard.
Option C is incorrect: Although this option can work, it is not as simple as
Option A. One thing to note is that AWS Health has provided API access with the endpoint in “https://health.us-east-1.amazonaws.com”.
Option D is incorrect: Because it should be a Health service instead of a Trusted Advisor service. The Personal Health Dashboard is provided by AWS Health in the AWS management console.