title: How to get CloudWatch to send an alarm every time a threshold has been breached?
body: <p>Currently using this script to monitor:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/mon-scripts.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/mon-scripts.html</a></p>
  
  <p>When the script is first run we receive the email, but after that the email never sends (even though the threshold has been breached continuously).</p>