diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check.go
index 0c16770ae..e9d2e3d22 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check.go
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheck() *schema.Resource {
 				Type:     schema.TypeString,
 				Optional: true,
 			},
+
 			"measure_latency": &schema.Schema{
 				Type:     schema.TypeBool,
 				Optional: true,
@@ -95,6 +96,21 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheck() *schema.Resource {
 				},
 			},
 
+			"cloudwatch_alarm_name": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Optional: true,
+			},
+
+			"cloudwatch_alarm_region": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Optional: true,
+			},
+
+			"insufficient_data_health_status": &schema.Schema{
+				Type:     schema.TypeString,
+				Optional: true,
+			},
+
 			"tags": tagsSchema(),
 		},
 	}
@@ -135,6 +151,19 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheckUpdate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{
 		updateHealthCheck.HealthThreshold = aws.Int64(int64(d.Get("child_health_threshold").(int)))
 	}
 
+	if d.HasChange("cloudwatch_alarm_name") || d.HasChange("cloudwatch_alarm_region") {
+		cloudwatchAlarm := &route53.AlarmIdentifier{
+			Name:   aws.String(d.Get("cloudwatch_alarm_name").(string)),
+			Region: aws.String(d.Get("cloudwatch_alarm_region").(string)),
+		}
+
+		updateHealthCheck.AlarmIdentifier = cloudwatchAlarm
+	}
+
+	if d.HasChange("insufficient_data_health_status") {
+		updateHealthCheck.InsufficientDataHealthStatus = aws.String(d.Get("insufficient_data_health_status").(string))
+	}
+
 	_, err := conn.UpdateHealthCheck(updateHealthCheck)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -182,7 +211,7 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheckCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{
 		healthConfig.ResourcePath = aws.String(v.(string))
 	}
 
-	if *healthConfig.Type != route53.HealthCheckTypeCalculated {
+	if *healthConfig.Type != route53.HealthCheckTypeCalculated && *healthConfig.Type != route53.HealthCheckTypeCloudwatchMetric {
 		if v, ok := d.GetOk("measure_latency"); ok {
 			healthConfig.MeasureLatency = aws.Bool(v.(bool))
 		}
@@ -202,6 +231,24 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheckCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{
 		}
 	}
 
+	if *healthConfig.Type == route53.HealthCheckTypeCloudwatchMetric {
+		cloudwatchAlarmIdentifier := &route53.AlarmIdentifier{}
+
+		if v, ok := d.GetOk("cloudwatch_alarm_name"); ok {
+			cloudwatchAlarmIdentifier.Name = aws.String(v.(string))
+		}
+
+		if v, ok := d.GetOk("cloudwatch_alarm_region"); ok {
+			cloudwatchAlarmIdentifier.Region = aws.String(v.(string))
+		}
+
+		healthConfig.AlarmIdentifier = cloudwatchAlarmIdentifier
+
+		if v, ok := d.GetOk("insufficient_data_health_status"); ok {
+			healthConfig.InsufficientDataHealthStatus = aws.String(v.(string))
+		}
+	}
+
 	input := &route53.CreateHealthCheckInput{
 		CallerReference:   aws.String(time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339Nano)),
 		HealthCheckConfig: healthConfig,
@@ -252,6 +299,12 @@ func resourceAwsRoute53HealthCheckRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{})
 	d.Set("invert_healthcheck", updated.Inverted)
 	d.Set("child_healthchecks", updated.ChildHealthChecks)
 	d.Set("child_health_threshold", updated.HealthThreshold)
+	d.Set("insufficient_data_health_status", updated.InsufficientDataHealthStatus)
+
+	if updated.AlarmIdentifier != nil {
+		d.Set("cloudwatch_alarm_name", updated.AlarmIdentifier.Name)
+		d.Set("cloudwatch_alarm_region", updated.AlarmIdentifier.Region)
+	}
 
 	// read the tags
 	req := &route53.ListTagsForResourceInput{
diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check_test.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check_test.go
index 9792ac10f..e18965546 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check_test.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_route53_health_check_test.go
@@ -73,6 +73,24 @@ func TestAccAWSRoute53HealthCheck_IpConfig(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
+func TestAccAWSRoute53HealthCheck_CloudWatchAlarmCheck(t *testing.T) {
+	resource.Test(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers:    testAccProviders,
+		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckRoute53HealthCheckDestroy,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			resource.TestStep{
+				Config: testAccRoute53HealthCheckCloudWatchAlarm,
+				Check: resource.ComposeTestCheckFunc(
+					testAccCheckRoute53HealthCheckExists("aws_route53_health_check.foo"),
+					resource.TestCheckResourceAttr(
+						"aws_route53_health_check.foo", "cloudwatch_alarm_name", "cloudwatch-healthcheck-alarm"),
+				),
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
+
 func testAccCheckRoute53HealthCheckDestroy(s *terraform.State) error {
 	conn := testAccProvider.Meta().(*AWSClient).r53conn
 
@@ -208,3 +226,24 @@ resource "aws_route53_health_check" "foo" {
    }
 }
 `
+
+const testAccRoute53HealthCheckCloudWatchAlarm = `
+resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "foobar" {
+    alarm_name = "cloudwatch-healthcheck-alarm"
+    comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
+    evaluation_periods = "2"
+    metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
+    namespace = "AWS/EC2"
+    period = "120"
+    statistic = "Average"
+    threshold = "80"
+    alarm_description = "This metric monitor ec2 cpu utilization"
+}
+
+resource "aws_route53_health_check" "foo" {
+  type = "CLOUDWATCH_METRIC"
+  cloudwatch_alarm_name = "${aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.foobar.alarm_name}"
+  cloudwatch_alarm_region = "us-west-2"
+  insufficient_data_health_status = "Healthy"
+}
+`
diff --git a/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/route53_health_check.html.markdown b/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/route53_health_check.html.markdown
index 6d2c66a5c..283e978d0 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/route53_health_check.html.markdown
+++ b/website/source/docs/providers/aws/r/route53_health_check.html.markdown
@@ -36,6 +36,29 @@ resource "aws_route53_health_check" "foo" {
 }
 ```
 
+## CloudWatch Alarm Example
+
+```
+resource "aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm" "foobar" {
+    alarm_name = "terraform-test-foobar5"
+    comparison_operator = "GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold"
+    evaluation_periods = "2"
+    metric_name = "CPUUtilization"
+    namespace = "AWS/EC2"
+    period = "120"
+    statistic = "Average"
+    threshold = "80"
+    alarm_description = "This metric monitor ec2 cpu utilization"
+}
+
+resource "aws_route53_health_check" "foo" {
+  type = "CLOUDWATCH_METRIC"
+  cloudwatch_alarm_name = "${aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm.foobar.alarm_name}"
+  cloudwatch_alarm_region = "us-west-2"
+  insufficient_data_health_status = "Healthy"
+}
+```
+
 ## Argument Reference
 
 The following arguments are supported:
@@ -43,7 +66,7 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 * `fqdn` - (Optional) The fully qualified domain name of the endpoint to be checked.
 * `ip_address` - (Optional) The IP address of the endpoint to be checked.
 * `port` - (Optional) The port of the endpoint to be checked.
-* `type` - (Required) The protocol to use when performing health checks. Valid values are `HTTP`, `HTTPS`, `HTTP_STR_MATCH`, `HTTPS_STR_MATCH`, `TCP` and `CALCULATED`.
+* `type` - (Required) The protocol to use when performing health checks. Valid values are `HTTP`, `HTTPS`, `HTTP_STR_MATCH`, `HTTPS_STR_MATCH`, `TCP`, `CALCULATED` and `CLOUDWATCH_METRIC`.
 * `failure_threshold` - (Required) The number of consecutive health checks that an endpoint must pass or fail.
 * `request_interval` - (Required) The number of seconds between the time that Amazon Route 53 gets a response from your endpoint and the time that it sends the next health-check request.
 * `resource_path` - (Optional) The path that you want Amazon Route 53 to request when performing health checks.
@@ -52,6 +75,10 @@ The following arguments are supported:
 * `invert_healthcheck` - (Optional) A boolean value that indicates whether the status of health check should be inverted. For example, if a health check is healthy but Inverted is True , then Route 53 considers the health check to be unhealthy.
 * `child_healthchecks` - (Optional) For a specified parent health check, a list of HealthCheckId values for the associated child health checks.
 * `child_health_threshold` - (Optional) The minimum number of child health checks that must be healthy for Route 53 to consider the parent health check to be healthy. Valid values are integers between 0 and 256, inclusive
+* `cloudwatch_alarm_name` - (Optional) The name of the CloudWatch alarm.
+* `cloudwatch_alarm_region` - (Optional) The CloudWatchRegion that the CloudWatch alarm was created in.
+* `insufficient_data_health_status` - (Optional) The status of the health check when CloudWatch has insufficient data about the state of associated alarm. Valid values are `Healthy` , `Unhealthy` and `LastKnownStatus`.
+
 * `tags` - (Optional) A mapping of tags to assign to the health check.
 
 At least one of either `fqdn` or `ip_address` must be specified.