Ops wants a CloudWatch alarm added to a nested application stack used by the city utilities portal in test—without manual console clicking. What is the preferred approach?
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Short Explanation
If the smoke detector is not on the floor plan, the next remodel throws it out. Put the alarm in the nested stack and update test through CloudFormation. Console-only alarms are temporary stickers.
Full Explanation
CloudFormation—including nested stacks—should manage consistent environment updates so monitoring resources remain part of the application definition. Adding the alarm to the nested template and deploying to test keeps the change repeatable and reviewable. Console-only alarms drift from the stack and may be lost on subsequent updates.