Creating a new Amazon SNS topic for use as an alert receiver in Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

You can use an existing Amazon SNS topic as an alert receiver for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, or you can create a new one. We recommend that you use a topic of the Standard type, so that you can forward alerts from the topic to email, SMS, or HTTP.

To create a new Amazon SNS topic to use as your alert manager receiver, follow the steps in Step 1: Create a topic. Be sure to choose Standard for the topic type.

If you want to receive emails every time a message is sent to that Amazon SNS topic, follow the steps in Step 2: Create a subscription to the topic.

Whether you use a new or existing Amazon SNS topic, you will need the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of your Amazon SNS topic to complete the following tasks.