I am looking for a solution to make a POST Request to an External API when the state of an EC2 Instance changes. I want to use Cloudwatch so that I can pass the InstanceId to the API with the Input Transformer option.
Is there a way to do this without involving Lambda? (upstream requirement) Perhaps with an SSM Automation?
You can send the CloudWatch events to SNS Topic or SQS Queue and have a subscriber somewhere that will do the API call when the event happens. However you still need to host the subscriber somewhere, give it the permissions to subscribe to the topic / queue, etc.
It would be much easier to use Lambda with a simple IAM Role. Can you elaborate why it isn't an option? Why would you not use the best suited tool for the job at hand?
