title: CloudWatch SMS notifications for EC2 instances that are not in us-east-1
body: <p>I am looking to get a notification schema setup for my EC2 instances that are in the us-west-2 data center. I have read the CloudWatch and SNS docs, and I am aware that SMS notifications are only available when setting up SNS Topics in us-east-1.</p>
  
  <p>I am wondering if anyone has found a way to get CloudWatch alarms for instances NOT in us-east-1 to broadcast on a topic setup in us-east-1?</p>