Push notifications

You can use Notifications in the Console Mobile Application to create actionable push notifications from AWS services, such as CloudWatch. These notifications can be delivered to your mobile device when a resource requires your attention. Enabling push notifications requires you to share your device ID with AWS. Use this tutorial to get started with and manage your push notifications in the Console Mobile Application.

Note

Push notifications depend on external services, such as Apple and Google messaging services. In the event of a service outage, AWS can’t guarantee the reliability or timeliness of notification delivery.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, be sure that you’ve completed the steps in Getting started with the AWS Console Mobile Application.

To receive push notifications, you must have the appropriate AWS User Notifications permissions. For more information, see Resource-level permissions in the AWS User Notifications User Guide.

Step 1: Get started with push notifications

To receive notifications about resources of interest, you must allow push notifications and create or subscribe to an existing notification configuration. A notification configuration is a container of your selected services and event rules. An event rule specifies what event generates a notification.

To create new notification configurations

1. In the Console Mobile Application, from the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

2. Choose Agree.

3. Choose Allow.

4. Set up notification configurations as follows:

   Tip

   If someone in your account has already created notification configurations, you can use them by choosing Select existing. For more information, see the next procedure.

   1. Choose Create new.

   2. Enter a name.

   3. (Optional) Enter a description.

      Tip

      Using distinct descriptions helps other account users differentiate alarms.

   4. Select a Region.

   5. (Optional) Select alarms.

      Note

      Choosing Specific alarms allows you to select individual alarms to receive notifications for. Choosing All alarms selects all available alarms in the account. Note that choosing All alarms can result in increased notifications.

   6. Choose Next.

5. View your selected notification configurations.

To select existing notification configurations

1. In the Console Mobile Application, from the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

2. Choose Agree.

3. Choose Allow.

4. Set up notification configurations as follows:

   1. Choose Select existing.

   2. Select notification configurations by choosing the plus sign (+).

   3. View your selected notification configurations.

Note

You can view other notification configurations by choosing the All tab. You can always return and modify previously selected notification preferences from this screen. If you deselect a notification configuration, you won’t receive push notifications for it.

Step 2: Viewing notifications

You can view console notifications directly in the Console Mobile Application.

Note

Whenever a new notification is available, the bell icon in the tab menu shows a blue badge.

If you log out of the application, you will still receive push notifications on your device. You must sign back in to the application to view its details.

To view your notifications

1. Open the Console Mobile Application.

2. From the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

3. Select a notification in your inbox to view additional details.

Managing notifications

You can manage your notifications in any of the following ways:

Subscribing to a notification configuration

You can generate push notifications from existing notification configurations in your account by selecting them.

To subscribe to an existing notification configuration

1. In the Console Mobile Application, from the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

2. Choose Configurations.

3. In the All tab, select notification configurations by choosing the plus sign (+).

Unsubscribing from a notification configuration

If you no longer wish to receive push notifications for an existing configuration, you can unsubscribe.

To unsubscribe from an existing notification configuration

1. In the Console Mobile Application, from the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

2. Choose Configurations.

3. In the Selected tab, deselect notification configurations by choosing the green checkmark icon.

Deleting a notification configuration

If you no longer need a notification configuration, you can delete it.

Warning

Deleting a notification configuration removes it from the account.

To delete a notification configuration

1. In the Console Mobile Application, from the tab menu at the bottom of your device, choose Notifications.

2. Choose Configurations.

3. Locate and choose the notification configuration.

4. Choose the vertical ellipsis icon.

5. Choose Delete.

Note

You can also manage your mobile device’s push notifications from the AWS User Notifications console by adding your mobile device as a delivery channel, but this requires additional permissions. For more information, see Listing mobile devices as delivery channels.