AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (DOP-C02) — Question 124

A media company has several thousand Amazon EC2 instances in an AWS account. The company is using Slack and a shared email inbox for team communications and important updates. A DevOps engineer needs to send all AWS-scheduled EC2 maintenance notifications to the Slack channel and the shared inbox. The solution must include the instances’ Name and Owner tags.

Which solution will meet these requirements?

Answer options

• A. Integrate AWS Trusted Advisor with AWS Config. Configure a custom AWS Config rule to invoke an AWS Lambda function to publish notifications to an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Subscribe a Slack channel endpoint and the shared inbox to the topic.
• B. Use Amazon EventBridge to monitor for AWS Health events. Configure the maintenance events to target an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Subscribe an AWS Lambda function to the SNS topic to send notifications to the Slack channel and the shared inbox.
• C. Create an AWS Lambda function that sends EC2 maintenance notifications to the Slack channel and the shared inbox. Monitor EC2 health events by using Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Configure a CloudWatch alarm that invokes the Lambda function when a maintenance notification is received.
• D. Configure AWS Support integration with AWS CloudTrail. Create a CloudTrail lookup event to invoke an AWS Lambda function to pass EC2 maintenance notifications to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). Configure Amazon SNS to target the Slack channel and the shared inbox.

Correct answer: B

Explanation

Option B is correct because using Amazon EventBridge to monitor AWS Health events allows for direct targeting of SNS notifications, which can then easily be routed to both Slack and email. The other options either do not provide a direct way to monitor EC2 maintenance events efficiently or do not ensure all required information is captured and sent to the necessary destinations.