Using aws sns with backup
TypeScriptAWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a managed service that provides message delivery from publishers to subscribers. It can work with AWS Backup to notify you about backup events. For example, you could set up notifications for when a backup job starts or completes.
AWS Backup is a fully managed backup service that makes it easy to centralize and automate the backup of data across AWS services. To achieve the goal of using AWS SNS with AWS Backup, we'll create two main resources:
- An SNS Topic: This will be the channel through which notifications are sent.
- Backup Vault Notifications: This will configure AWS Backup to send notifications to the SNS topic when specific events occur.
Here's a TypeScript program that sets up these resources using Pulumi:
import * as aws from "@pulumi/aws"; const main = async () => { // Create an SNS Topic. // This will be the medium through which notifications are sent. const backupNotificationsTopic = new aws.sns.Topic("backupNotificationsTopic", { name: "backup-notifications", }); // Create a backup vault. // This is where your backups will be stored. const backupVault = new aws.backup.Vault("backupVault", { name: "my-backup-vault", }); // Set up notifications for the backup vault. // This tells AWS Backup to send notifications to the SNS topic for the following events. const vaultNotifications = new aws.backup.VaultNotifications("vaultNotifications", { backupVaultName: backupVault.name, // Reference to the created backup vault. snsTopicArn: backupNotificationsTopic.arn, // Reference to the SNS Topic ARN. backupVaultEvents: [ "BACKUP_JOB_STARTED", "BACKUP_JOB_COMPLETED", "RESTORE_JOB_STARTED", "RESTORE_JOB_COMPLETED", // You can specify additional events based on your needs. ], }); // Export the SNS Topic ARN so that we can use it outside of Pulumi. return { snsTopicArn: backupNotificationsTopic.arn, }; }; main().then(exports => { for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(exports)) { pulumi.export(key, value); } });
In this program:
- First, we import the AWS Pulumi package to interact with AWS services.
- We create an SNS topic that will be used to send the notifications.
- Next, we create an AWS backup vault, which is where our backups will reside.
- After that, we configure the AWS Backup vault notifications, linking it to the SNS topic we created and specifying the backup vault events that we want to be notified about.
- Finally, we export the SNS Topic ARN so it can be used outside of this Pulumi program, for example, to subscribe an endpoint that can consume these notifications (like an email address or an AWS Lambda function).
By deploying this program with Pulumi, you will have set up an AWS Backup system that will notify you via SNS on the specified events, providing you the ability to respond to backup jobs programmatically or manually.
Remember to run
pulumi up
within your Pulumi project to deploy the resources specified in the program.For more information on the resources used in this program, you can visit: