Configure Amazon User Notifications for Amazon Health

Amazon Health provides information about service operations, such as operational issues, planned maintenance, and planned software lifecycle events. For comprehensive visibility into Amazon Health event details, such as affected resource IDs, current status (open or closed), and resource status, it's a best practice to use Amazon Health endpoints, such as the Amazon Health API, the aws.health source in Amazon EventBridge, and the Amazon Health Dashboard. These endpoints provide the most detailed and real-time information about ongoing events and changes that might affect your workloads.

Amazon User Notifications notifies you through additional UX channels (email, chat, or push notifications to the Amazon Console Mobile Application). Amazon Health event notifications don’t contain as much detailed data as the endpoints listed above; however, they provide a simple and effective way to notify stakeholders of issues and changes. Based on rules that you create, User Notifications creates and sends a notification when an event matches the values that you specify in a rule. You can select which UX delivery channels a notification is sent to, and setup aggregation to reduce the number of notifications generated for specific events. Notifications are also visible in the Console Notifications Center. For example, you can receive chat notifications if you have resources in your Amazon account that are scheduled for updates, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

To learn more about setting up Amazon User Notifications, see Getting started with Amazon User Notifications.