-
hosts: localhost

  tasks:

    - name: Create Alarm
      ec2_metric_alarm:
         state: present
         region: us-east-1
         name: "Status Check Failed - $AWS_NAME - $INTSATNCE_IP"
         metric: "StatusCheckFailed"
         namespace: "AWS/EC2"
         statistic: "Minimum"
         comparison: ">="
         threshold: 1
         period: 60
         evaluation_periods: 2
         description: "This will alarm when the instance status check fails"
         dimensions: {'InstanceId': '$Instance_ID'}
         alarm_actions: ["arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:XXXXXXXXXXXX:Cloudwatch-Notifications"]

var1:
    AWS_Name: NAME1
    Instance_ID: i-01b8e4534wt811af4
    Instance_IP: "10.75.169.21"
  var2:
    AWS_Name: NAME2
    Instance_ID: i-4566eftuiw93045
    Instance_IP: "10.75.169.16"