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• An item that watches a single metric over a specified time period, and triggers an Amazon SNS topic or an Auto Scaling policy if the value of the metric crosses a threshold value over a predetermined number of time periods.

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  alarm. (n.d.). AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary. Retrieved June 9, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/alarm.

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  alarm. docs.aws.amazon.com. AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary. Amazon. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/alarm (accessed: June 9, 2023).

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  "alarm." AWS ElastiCache User Guide Glossary. Amazon. 9 June. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/alarm.

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