Pause AWS CloudWatch Alarms on a Schedule Without Lambdas
3 min readFeb 2, 2021
AWS CloudWatch Alarms includes most of the features you would expect in a monitoring solution. However, the ability to set up blackout windows to pause alarms is sorely lacking.
Popular solutions includes relying on lambdas - to enable / disable the alarm, or to act as a gateway for the alarm. Here’s a solution which does not use lambdas.
