name : set-alarm-state.rst **To temporarily change the state of an alarm** The following example uses the ``set-alarm-state`` command to temporarily change the state of an Amazon CloudWatch alarm named "myalarm" and set it to the ALARM state for testing purposes:: aws cloudwatch set-alarm-state --alarm-name "myalarm" --state-value ALARM --state-reason "testing purposes" This command returns to the prompt if successful.