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setting-up-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications

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.

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# Setting Up CloudWatch Alarm Notifications

## Overview

Domain expertise for configuring Amazon CloudWatch alarm notification channels
using Amazon SNS topics and subscriptions. Covers creating encrypted SNS topics,
setting up subscriptions for email, SMS, and webhook endpoints, configuring
topic policies for CloudWatch access, and linking alarms to notification actions.

## Set up alarm notifications

To configure notification channels for a CloudWatch alarm, follow the procedure exactly.
See [CloudWatch alarm notification setup procedure](references/setup-cloudwatch-alarm-notifications.md).