AWS Cloudwatch Guardduty link

Question

In AWS, I am trying to detect Critical alerts in Guardduty and configure cloudwatch which will trigger mails when there is a critical alert in guardduty. I found a link http://docs.aws.amazon.com/guardduty/latest/ug/guardduty_findings_cloudwatch.html which uses Lambda to create fuctions which will do that but I was looking for more simpler ways without AWS lamda.

Is there is a way to directly configure a cloudwatch alarm which will keep an eye on Guardduty and can use SNS notifications to send mails to desired team.

Answer 1

I implemented the CloudWatch event as described in the link you posted. I get alerts via SNS. No Lambda required (although you COULD trigger a Lambda function instead of SNS if you wanted).