Testing CloudWatch metric alarms with LocalStack

LocalStack is a cloud service emulator designed for local development and testing of cloud applications. With LocalStack, you can test AWS CloudWatch metric alarms, to get notified on infrastructure failures — all on your local machine!In this video, you will learn how you can use a CloudWatch metric alarm to get notified automatically when your Lambda function invocations fail. You will also set up an email notification using the Simple Email Service (SES) and our Mailhog extension.## Resources• CloudWatch Docs: https://docs.localstack.cloud/user-guide/aws/cloudwatch/• LocalStack Extensions: https://docs.localstack.cloud/user-guide/extensions/• Mailhog extension: https://pypi.org/project/localstack-extension-mailhog

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