Critical CloudWatch alarms for a city permitting API must reach the on-call municipal engineer quickly. Which wiring best matches how operators actually get paged?
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Short Explanation
Alarms that sit quietly in a bucket are like a smoke detector with no batteries—technically there, useless in a fire. Point CloudWatch at SNS and let SNS hit the pager or ChatOps channel people already watch. That is how critical municipal pages actually land.
Full Explanation
CloudWatch alarms support actions that publish to Amazon SNS, which can notify pager, email, or ChatOps integrations used by on-call engineers. Passive stores such as daily S3 checks, monthly CSV exports, or console browsing do not provide timely incident response. Wiring critical alarms to SNS matches operational practice for high-severity municipal APIs.