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Monitoring Amazon SNS using Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Amazon SNS automatically collects and sends various metrics about message deliveries to Amazon CloudWatch. You can view these metrics and assign them with alarms to alert you, in case a message delivery rate drops beyond a certain threshold. You can additionally view the message delivery logs, as well using the CloudWatch Logs page:

To get started, first ensure that you have assigned an IAM role that allows SNS to write SMS delivery logs over to CloudWatch. To do so, from the navigation pane, select the Text messaging (SMS) option.
Next, from the Manage text messaging preferences option, ensure that you have a valid IAM role provided under the IAM role for CloudWatch Logs access field. ...

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