how to detect Availability zonal failure automatically

Question

Are there any techniques available to automatically detect Availability zonal failure in Amazon Web Services?

I tried Lambda function to check the status AZ but i want to try another way. Is there any other way to detect the failure automatically.

when there is a failure i should get a email

Answer 1

You can try these alternative approaches.

First: You can try AWS Cloudwatch Metric to detect your service health For example for Ec2 Instance the StatusCheckFailed metric can be monitored. Then create an SNS topic to trigger an alarm which sends an email, as soon as it meets a specific threshold. Check this documentation to create SNS topic.

Second: You could also try AWS Health Dashboard to monitor the aws Resources status