Alex Morgan · Principal Engineer
Alex Morgan is a principal engineer at SyncRivo, focused on platform architecture, reliability engineering, and the infrastructure powering real-time messaging interoperability. LinkedIn
April 9, 2026 · 10 min read
Route CloudWatch alarms and EventBridge events to every platform your cloud teams use — simultaneously. SNS → SyncRivo → Slack + Teams + Webex. No Lambda, no code.
Subscribe your SNS topic to SyncRivo once. All CloudWatch alarms on that topic fan out to every connected messaging platform automatically.
Any AWS event deliverable via SNS is accepted — CloudWatch Alarms, EventBridge rules, RDS events, EC2 state changes, and more.
Metric threshold alarms routed to SRE Slack channels and engineering Teams channels the moment state changes to ALARM.
CloudWatch Composite Alarm firings (multiple conditions) delivered to on-call channels with full context from the SNS payload.
Alarm state changes to OK broadcast to incident channels so teams know issues are resolved without checking the AWS console.
CloudWatch Events / EventBridge rule triggers — EC2 state changes, RDS events, ECS task failures — routed to relevant team channels.
SNS topics from multiple AWS accounts routed to appropriate channels per account — one SyncRivo endpoint handles all accounts.
RDS instance events, Auto Scaling notifications, and AWS Health events delivered to infrastructure team channels in real time.
Setup takes under 15 minutes. No Lambda or code required.
Example routing for cloud engineering teams using AWS across multi-platform organizations.
| CloudWatch / AWS Event | SyncRivo Routes To | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Alarm state: ALARM (p99 latency) | → Slack #sre-alerts + Teams #engineering-incidents | SRE and engineering leadership notified immediately |
| Alarm state: OK (resolved) | → All subscribed channels | All-clear broadcast to all incident channels |
| Composite Alarm firing | → Slack #sre-on-call + PagerDuty escalation | Multi-condition alert with on-call notification |
| RDS event: failover | → Slack #database-sre + Teams #platform-eng | Database team and platform team both notified |
| EC2 state: stopped unexpectedly | → Slack #infra-alerts | Infrastructure team notified for investigation |
| Multi-account alarm (prod + staging) | → Separate channels per account via routing rules | Account-scoped routing from a single SyncRivo endpoint |
| Capability | DIY Lambda | SyncRivo |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 2–4 hours (code + IAM + deploy) | ~15 minutes (no code) |
| Fan-out to Teams + Slack simultaneously | ✗ Requires separate code paths | ✓ One endpoint, configurable fan-out |
| Add Webex / Google Chat / Zoom | ✗ Requires new Lambda code | ✓ Add destination in SyncRivo UI |
| Multi-account support | ✗ Requires IAM cross-account setup | ✓ Multiple SNS subscriptions to one endpoint |
| Ongoing maintenance | Code changes, dependency updates, IAM drift | ✓ Zero maintenance |
| SOC 2 audit trail for alert delivery | ✗ Custom logging required | ✓ Full event log built-in |
| Cold start latency on alert | Up to 500ms+ on cold Lambda | ✓ Sub-100ms delivery |
Yes. AWS CloudWatch Alarms can trigger SNS topics, and SNS can deliver to an HTTP endpoint or Lambda function that posts to Slack. For a simpler path without Lambda, SyncRivo accepts CloudWatch SNS notifications directly — configure an SNS subscription pointing to your SyncRivo webhook endpoint, and SyncRivo routes the alarm to Slack instantly.
AWS does not have a native Teams integration for CloudWatch. The standard approach is CloudWatch Alarm → SNS Topic → HTTP endpoint that forwards to Teams. SyncRivo acts as that endpoint: subscribe your SNS topic to your SyncRivo webhook URL, and SyncRivo fans the alarm to Teams, Slack, Webex, Google Chat, and Zoom simultaneously — no Lambda needed.
Create an SNS topic for your CloudWatch alarms. Subscribe that SNS topic to your SyncRivo inbound webhook URL. In SyncRivo, configure channel mappings to deliver to your Slack #sre-alerts channel AND your Teams incident channel simultaneously. One SNS subscription — both platforms receive the alarm in real time.
Yes. SyncRivo supports AWS SNS HTTP/HTTPS endpoint subscriptions. When you subscribe an SNS topic to a SyncRivo webhook URL, SyncRivo automatically handles the SNS subscription confirmation request. After confirmation, all SNS messages (including CloudWatch alarm notifications) are routed to your configured messaging destinations.
SyncRivo routes any event that AWS SNS can deliver to an HTTP endpoint: CloudWatch Alarm state changes (OK, ALARM, INSUFFICIENT_DATA), CloudWatch Composite Alarm firings, CloudWatch Events/EventBridge rule triggers, RDS events, EC2 instance state changes, and any other SNS-delivered AWS event type.
Yes. Create an SNS topic in each AWS account and subscribe each SNS topic to the same SyncRivo webhook endpoint. In SyncRivo, routing rules can differentiate by account (using the SNS message subject or TopicArn) to route each account's alarms to the appropriate Slack channel or Teams channel.
Lambda solutions require writing and maintaining code, managing IAM permissions, handling SNS message parsing, and separately implementing Teams and Slack notification logic. SyncRivo replaces all of this with zero-code configuration: subscribe SNS to SyncRivo, configure channel mappings in the UI. No Lambda cold starts, no code to maintain, and you get fan-out to 5 platforms with a single configuration.
Free plan available. No credit card required. One SNS subscription — all your platforms in 15 minutes.
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