Check an AWS alarm from the PHP SDK

checkAlarm.php

<?php

include("vendor/autoload.php");

use Aws\Common\Aws;

// Create a service builder using a configuration file
$aws = Aws::factory('config.php');

// Get the client from the builder by namespace
$client = $aws->get('CloudWatch');

$result = $client->describeAlarms( array(
	'AlarmNames' => array('ALARM NAME'))
	);

$alarm = $result['MetricAlarms'][0];

echo $alarm['StateValue'] . PHP_EOL;
exit;