AWS Security Cookbook

How to do it...

We can create a CloudWatch event as follows:

1. Go to the CloudWatch service in the console.
2. If we are using CloudWatch events for the first time, we should see a Getting started page. Click on Get started. We should be taken to the Create rule page.

We can also reach the Create rule page as follows: click on Rules from the left sidebar and click on Create rule on the Rules page.

3. Under the Event Source section, do the following:
   1. Select Event Pattern.
   2. Set Service Name to EC2.
   3. Set Event Type to EC2 Instance State-change Notification.
   4. Select Any state and Any instance:

4. Under Targets, do the following:
   1. Click on Add target ...