How are you pumping your AWS CloudWatch Alarms into your various notification services?

Are you even looking at your budget alerts(assuming you have them setup. More on this coming soon)?

Is anyone even looking at them?

If you want people to look at them you have to make it easy for them to find and slap them in the face with it.

Right now I am setting up the infrastructure for the second round of CloudWarGames.com live events and I need to consume SNS topics.

The thing is that I handcuffed myself from coding too much on this. The main reason for this is because the engineer in me is always over engineers and under does the marketing and sales. So I need a simple, easy to use solution.

Enter Make.com:

This is not an endorsement of Make, nor are they sponsoring me. Actually I’ll be honest when they go off the rails it is pretty bad but when they are on it is great.

I have been enjoying not needing to write any integration code except to push to a webhook on Make whenever a user progresses in their CWG signup journey. This then triggers a bunch of 3rd party services that don’t need to write integration code for.

So I was absolutely delighted when I saw they could consume from AWS SNS using Make.com. This means no need for me to write some fancy Discord, Trello, ConvertKit or Slack integration. I can just have CW Alarms and AWS Budgets pump their alerts into SNS and have Make route the alarms wherever they need to go with a few clicks.

Would I use this in a massive production environment: HELL NO!!!

But CWG is in its infancy and between launching a new video course, supporting my existing clients, and finishing proposals for new clients, time is not a luxury I have right now.

So if you are working on launching a new project like CWG then save yourself a few minutes, worry about scaling it later, and just pump those events into Make so you can focus more on marketing and sales.

From a technical side I can scale this project in my sleep and I would bet you could as well. It has always been the marketing and sales that have been my achilles heel and I am not going to let that happen again.

Question For You:

Are you using any software or service to streamline your integrations with 3rd party APIs?