# DRHCREL06-BP01 Use AWS Health to receive EC2 instance retirement notifications and scheduled events on Outposts that may require instance failover ahead of time
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 Configure AWS Health event monitoring and maintain current operations contact information while ensuring adequate capacity to minimize impact during maintenance activities. 

 **Desired outcome:** Use AWS Health for getting AWS events signals and taking recommended actions, providing high availability while meeting data residency requirements. 

 **Benefits of establishing this best practice:** Using AWS Health for proactive notifications allows for timely planning and initiation of instance failovers, minimizing potential downtime while meeting data residency requirements during maintenance events. 

 **Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established:** High 

## Implementation guidance
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 Monitor AWS Health events through [AWS EventBridge,](https://aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/) [AWS Health API](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/ug/health-api.html), or email. We recommend updating the correct contact information, especially the operations contact as described [in our accounts documentation so that the correct individuals receive these events.](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-update-contact.html) Provide sufficient capacity and highly available design to avoid any impact during maintenance activities.