add AWS Health event rule

[sgzijl]

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TemplateID: operations/aws-health.yaml
Region: any

This is not an issue, but an idea/feature request.

I think it might be useful to add an AWS health notifications template, so that issues and scheduled changes are reported to the operations/alert sns topic.

The template could look something like:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: 'AWS Health: publish issues and scheduled changes to operations/alert topic'
Metadata:
  'AWS::CloudFormation::Interface':
    ParameterGroups:
    - Label:
        default: 'Parent Stacks'
      Parameters:
      - ParentAlertStack
Parameters:
 ParentAlertStack:
    Description: 'Stack name of parent alert stack based on operations/alert.yaml template.'
    Type: String
    Default: ''
Resources:
  CloudWatchEventRule: 
    Type: "AWS::Events::Rule"
    Properties: 
      Description: "send all AWS Health notifications to SNS"
      EventPattern: 
        source: 
          - "aws.health"
      State: "ENABLED"
      Targets: 
        - 
          Arn:
            'Fn::ImportValue': !Sub '${ParentAlertStack}-TopicARN'
          Id: "HealthTopic"
Outputs:
  TemplateID:
    Description: 'template id'
    Value: 'operations/awshealth'
  CloudWatchEventRule:
    Description: 'The created CloudWatch event rule'
    Value: !Ref CloudWatchEventRule
    Export:
      Name: !Sub '${AWS::StackName}-CloudWatchEventRule'

Users then get notified when AWS is facing platform issues or schedules a change (eg: RDS maintenance), et cetera.

Let me know what you think...

Greetz, Siert

[michaelwittig]

I like the idea. I started something similar (in a separate repo) https://github.com/marbot-io/monitoring-jump-start/blob/master/marbot.yml#L448 but we could copy some parts to this repo as well. In fact, some parts are already copied :)