A CloudWatch Alarm that triggers when the traffic outgoing over a managed AWS VPN tunnel hits a certain threshold (Default: Less than 1,000,000 bytes in 15 minutes).

This CloudWatch Alarm is configured per VPN connection, which is set as an alarm dimension. Provide the VPN Connection ID by entering it under the Dimension.Value field in the Configure Alarm Settings settings page.

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AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Description: ''
Resources:
  SnsTopicMetricFilterCloudWatchAlarm:
    Type: 'AWS::SNS::Topic'
    Properties:
      Subscription:
        - Endpoint: email@example.com
          Protocol: email
      TopicName: alarm-action
  CloudWatchAlarm:
    Type: 'AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm'
    Properties:
      AlarmName: cwalarm_vpntrafficout
      AlarmDescription: 'A CloudWatch Alarm that triggers when the traffic outgoing over a managed AWS VPN tunnel hits a certain threshold (Default: Less than 1,000,000 bytes in 15 minutes).'
      MetricName: TunnelDataOut
      Namespace: AWS/VPN
      Statistic: Sum
      Period: '900'
      EvaluationPeriods: '1'
      Threshold: '1000000'
      ComparisonOperator: LessThanThreshold
      AlarmActions:
        - Ref: SnsTopicMetricFilterCloudWatchAlarm
      Dimensions:
        - Name: VpnId
          Value: ''
Parameters: {}
Metadata: {}
Conditions: {}

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