Question - AHA vs AWS User Notifications

[amirasyraf]

Not an issue, but rather a question.

Correct me if I'm wrong, with the launch of AWS User Notifications in 2023, it seems the need for this solution has largely been superseded by that native service which provides out-of-the-box and simple setup to getting AWS Health alerts?

[sam-fakhreddine]

Different use cases.

[amirasyraf]

Different use cases.

Sorry I'm confused, what's the difference?

From the README:

AWS Health Aware (AHA) is an automated notification tool for sending well-formatted AWS Health Alerts to Amazon Chime, Slack, Microsoft Teams, E-mail or an AWS Eventbridge compatible endpoint as long as you have Business or Enterprise Support.

That's exactly what AWS User Notifications does https://aws.amazon.com/notifications/

[andrewcr7]

Hi folks, I wanted to clarify a few points in this discussion.

• Function: AWS Health Aware (AHA) and AWS User Notifications both create notifications from AWS Health events.
• Architecture: AHA uses the AWS Health API and AWS User Notifications builds on EventBridge using the AWS Health events delivered to your default event bus.
  • (AWS User Notifications is extensible to events received from more AWS Services through EventBridge as well. e.g. CloudWatch Alarms, EC2, RDS, etc.)
• Deployment/Management: AHA is provided as self-managed CloudFormation stack deploying resource in your account to poll for and create notifications. AWS User Notifications is a fully managed AWS Service.

If you’re considering both options, I would recommend exploring AWS User Notifications first. As a native AWS service, User Notifications provides similar capabilities to AHA, seamlessly integrates with your AWS environment and is continuously evolving to offer enhanced functionalities.