Getting a phone call in the middle of the night when your servers are on fire is a necessary evil for many developers and network administrators. If your site is being used around the world, then it needs to be available 24/7. I thought it'd be fun to see how easy it'd be to get a simple incident alarm going using Twilio and AWS CloudWatch, SNS, and Lambdas. Hint: it's very easy. In this post I'll
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