Amazon Redshift User Manual

5. Click Create Alarm.
6. In the Create Alarm dialog box, configure an alarm, and click Create.
Note
The notifications that are displayed the Send a notification to box are your Amazon Simple
Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics.To learn more about Amazon SNS and creating
topics, go to Create a Topic in the Amazon Simple Notification Service Getting Started
Guide. If you don't have any topics in Amazon SNS, you can create a topic in the Create
Alarm dialog by clicking the create topic link.
The details of your alarm will vary with your circumstance. In the following example, the average
CPU utilization of a node (Compute-0) has an alarm set so that if the CPU goes above 80 percent
for four consecutive five minute periods, a notification is sent to the topic
redshift-example-cluster-alarms.
7. In the list of alarms, find your new alarm.
You may need to wait a few moments as sufficient data is collected to determine the state of the
alarm as shown in the following example.
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Creating an Alarm

Amazon Redshift Specifications

General

Provider	Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Query Language	SQL
Data Storage	Columnar storage
Security	Encryption at rest and in transit, VPC, IAM
Backup	Automated and manual snapshots
Deployment	Cloud-based
Type	Cloud-based data warehouse service
Primary Use	Data warehousing, analytics
Integration	Integrates with AWS services, BI tools, and ETL tools
Pricing Model	On-demand and reserved instance pricing
Data Compression	Columnar storage with data compression
Performance Optimization	Query optimization