You can use private Slack channels with AWS Chatbot. To do so, choose Private channel. In Slack, copy the Channel ID of the private channel by right-clicking on the channel name in the left pane and choosing Copy Link. The Channel ID is the string at the end of the URL (for example, AB3BBLZZ8YY). AWS EC2 monitoring with Cloudwatch, SNS, Lambda, and Slack By default, when managing a large number of EC2 instances, you don't get a lot of visibility into how your instances are behaving. Any monitoring beyond what you get in the console needs to be configured and set up by the AWS user using services like Cloudwatch or Cloudtrail, etc. AWS Lambda function for forwarding SNS notifications to Slack - function.js. AWS Lambda function for forwarding SNS notifications to Slack - function.js. Skip to content. I've used it to integrate Slack into AWS CodeCommit (but without SNS in this case, the risk is acceptable).
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today that its AWS Chatbot service for sending notifications to DevOps teams is now generally available.
Launched in beta in June 2019, AWS Chatbot enables security, billing and system stability alerts to be sent to DevOps teams via the popular collaboration tool Slack. The service delivers alerts from several important AWS services, including Amazon Cloud Watch, AWS Health, AWS Budgets, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty and AWS CloudFormation.
It takes its cue from the Amazon Simple Notification Service, which sends the same types of notifications to developers’ email inboxes. The messages can also be routed through Amazon’s own Chime collaboration service, the company said.
“AWS Chatbot is a unique and powerful communication tool that has the potential to change the way that you monitor and maintain your cloud environments,” AWS Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr said in a blog post. He said the tool should help teams that are usually engaged with Slack to respond to incidents faster.
AWS Chatbot works by redirecting customers’ SNS topic notifications to developers’ Slack channels or Chime chat rooms. Administrators can add the alerts to Slack from directly within the AWS Chatbot console, though some extra configuration might be required for some services, Amazon said.
The types of notifications it delivers include messages about billing and cost management, operating metrics for Amazon services, security threats, compliance alerts and availability of resources for key applications.
“DevOps teams can receive real-time notifications that help them monitor their systems from within Slack,” the Slack team wrote in a blog post. “That means they can address situations before they become full-blown issues, whether it’s a budget deviation, a system overload or a security event.”
“The future of work is to meet people where they work, and that is in dialogue-based applications like Microsoft Teams or Slack,” said Holger Mueller, an analyst with Constellation Research Inc. “So it’s no surprise that AWS Chatbot has a plugin for Slack, giving developers and DevOps teams better access to a wide range of AWS notifications.”
AWS Chatbot is available now at no cost, with users instead billed for the underlying AWS services they use.
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Slack is partnering with Amazon Web Services to integrate AWS management functions into Slack channels, among other integrations between the two.
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The integrations primarily involve Slack incorporating AWS functionality and products into its system in several ways that will benefit organizations that use both Slack and AWS, the companies said.
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Slack also said it 'will use a range of AWS services, including storage, compute, database, security, analytics, and machine learning, to develop new collaboration features,' while AWS' part in the deal seems limited to adopting Slack as its internal collaboration platform.
Behind-the-scenes integrations are just one element of the Slack/AWS partnership, and many elements of the new deal between the two companies will affect Slack and AWS users as well.
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What Slack and AWS users can expect
There are four major things that Slack announced as part of its new integration partnership with AWS, and each will affect enterprise Slack customers who use AWS.
The most invisible change coming as part of the partnership is Slack's migration of the infrastructure for its Slack Calls video calling and conferencing service to Amazon Chime. Slack said this migration will allow it to eliminate the overhead of maintaining its own video conferencing infrastructure and 'leverage AWS's proven infrastructure to deliver high-quality and reliable user experiences.'
Slack said the Amazon Chime migration won't have a direct effect on users, at least in the short term. Over time 'the move will allow us to add new features, such as mobile video, so users can continue to rely on Slack for secure enterprise communication.'
One thing that Slack users will definitely see is the addition of AWS Chatbot to Slack. While AWS Chatbot already exists and is actively being used, Slack said that the plan is to continue integrating the AWS Chatbot service to incorporate all of AWS' services 'to give developers the ability to collaborate with their teams to manage all of their cloud-based services without leaving Slack.'
The Slack AWS Chatbot is able to send alerts in Slack channels when errors occur, lets developers run AWS command line interface commands, and can provide reports and other diagnostic data, all inside of Slack.
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Amazon AppFlow is also getting a Slack integration as part of the partnership. AppFlow in Slack will allow users to transfer data between Slack and AWS services like S3 and Redshift without having to manually download and upload data, and in coming months will support bidirectional data transfer inside of Slack channels.
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Finally, Slack's Enterprise Key Management (EKM), which has operated on AWS Key Management Service since 2019, is getting additional features that will allow Slack users to automate routine key security processes through integration with Slack's workflow builder.
Slack said its goal in the partnership is to create an alliance that allows enterprises to unlock their capabilities to innovate. 'By integrating AWS services with Slack's channel-based messaging platform, we're helping teams easily and seamlessly manage their cloud infrastructure projects and launch cloud-based services without ever leaving Slack,' said Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield.
'Together, AWS and Slack are giving developer teams the ability to collaborate and innovate faster on the front end with applications, while giving them the ability to efficiently manage their backend cloud infrastructure,' said AWS CEO Andy Jassy.
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