AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (legacy) — Question 381

Which of the following services can receive an alert from CloudWatch?

Answer options

• A. AWS Elastic Block Store
• B. AWS Relational Database Service
• C. AWS Auto Scaling
• D. AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Correct answer: C

Explanation

AWS Auto Scaling can natively receive alerts from Amazon CloudWatch alarms to initiate scaling policies, such as launching or terminating EC2 instances. While AWS Elastic Block Store, AWS Relational Database Service, and AWS Elastic Load Balancing send performance metrics to CloudWatch, they do not directly receive and act on CloudWatch alarm notifications in this manner.