Configuring your Audit Manager notifications

You can configure Audit Manager to send notifications to the Amazon SNS topic of your choice. If you're subscribed to that SNS topic, you receive notifications directly whenever you sign in to Audit Manager.

Follow the steps on this page to learn how to view and update your notification settings to suit your preferences. You can use either a standard SNS topic or a FIFO (first-in-first-out) SNS topic. Although Audit Manager supports sending notifications to FIFO topics, the order that messages are sent in isn't guaranteed.

Prerequisites

If you want to use an Amazon SNS topic that you don't own, you must configure your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy for this. More specifically, you must configure it to allow publishing from the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the topic. For an example policy that you can use, see Example 1 (Permissions for the SNS topic).

Procedure

You can update this setting using the Audit Manager console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the Audit Manager API.

Audit Manager console

To update your notification settings on the Audit Manager console

1. From the Assessment settings tab, go to the Notifications section.

2. To use an existing SNS topic, select the topic name from the dropdown menu.

3. To create a new SNS topic, choose Create new topic.

4. When you’re done, choose Save.

AWS CLI

To update your notification settings in the AWS CLI

Run the update-settings command and use the --sns-topic parameter to specify an SNS topic.

In the following example, replace the placeholder text with your own information:

aws auditmanager update-settings --sns-topic arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:my-assessment-topic

Audit Manager API

To update your notification settings using the API

Call the UpdateSettings operation and use the snsTopic parameter to specify an SNS topic.

Additional resources

• For instructions on how to create an Amazon SNS topic, see Creating an Amazon SNS topic in the Amazon SNS User Guide.

• For an example policy that you can use to allow Audit Manager to send notifications to Amazon SNS topics , see Example 1 (Permissions for the SNS topic)

• To learn more about the list of actions that invoke notifications in Audit Manager, see Notifications in AWS Audit Manager.

• For solutions to notification issues in Audit Manager, see Troubleshooting notification issues.