AWS Backup - How to get notification from failed backups

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I'm using AWS Backup to backup my resources. I would like to get notifications from failed backups, but the only way to check the status of backups is from the AWS Backup service page - there is nothing AWS Backup related on Cloudwatch metrics, I was thinking of creating SNS-topic from Cloudwatch metric but that doesn't seem to be possible now?

Another question - would there be any way to get weekly report from AWS Backup, like "There are 25 resources currently being backed up, and from the last 7 days there is 175 restore points available"?

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First of all you should create an SNS topic, add AWS Backup as a trusted entity in the resource-based policy of the SNS topic:

{
"Sid": "__console_pub_0",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "backup.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "SNS:Publish",
"Resource": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:{accountId}:test"
}

then turns on notifications for that topic and add BACKUP_JOB_COMPLETED event by the following AWS documentation: Using Amazon SNS to Track AWS Backup Events.

Each time when AWS Backup job is completed or failed you will be informed to subscribed email address in SNS topic. However, I can't find a way to customize notification.

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