# How do I get a phone call from an AWS CloudWatch alarm?

> CloudWatch alarms publish to SNS, which can't call you by itself. Subscribe the SNS topic to an on-call service. With Pagerless, add the HTTPS subscription with ?wake= and your alarm-name pattern: matching alarms push, then call you after 5 minutes, and the alarm's OK state closes the problem.

URL: https://pagerless.dev/answers/cloudwatch-alarm-phone-call
Updated: 2026-10-22

Setup: [AWS CloudWatch alarms](https://pagerless.dev/integrations/aws-cloudwatch).

## Questions

### How do I get a phone call from an AWS CloudWatch alarm?

CloudWatch alarms publish to SNS, which can't call you by itself. Subscribe the SNS topic to an on-call service. With Pagerless, add the HTTPS subscription with ?wake= and your alarm-name pattern: matching alarms push, then call you after 5 minutes, and the alarm's OK state closes the problem.