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How to check status of AWS Service Outage

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Hello! Is there an easy way to check the health status of an AWS Service in a given region? For example, if I want to check if Lambda or DynamoDB is currently experiencing outages in us-east-1, is there a rest endpoint I could hit in a browser or API call that might return me that info? I've been reading about AWS Health API but i dont think that is doing what I'm hoping for (or at least not that I see on the surface). And from what I can tell, I cant see any rest GET endpoints that just return an outage status for a given service (though that would be super helpful!). Does anyone know of anything, or maybe a strategy for checking the health of a service to properly do some smart routing at the application level?

Background info - i'm looking to define a custom /health endpoint in an API service of mine, that runs in a fargate container, to check downstream dependencies like Lambda and Dynamo to see if there is any known outages of those service types. If i detect an outage with lets say Lambdas in us-east-1, then I will programatically route traffic to my us-east-2 endpoint instead at a load balancer placed before my fargate's health check.

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ServerlessComputeManagement & GovernanceDatabase
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AWS LambdaAWS HealthAmazon DynamoDB
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IOEggception
asked a year ago5564 views
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You can leverage AWS Health API. The AWS Health API provides access to the AWS Health information that appears in the AWS Health Dashboard. You can use the API operations to get information about events that might affect your AWS services and resources.

References:

AWS Health API

AWS Personal Health Dashboard

blog post

Hope this helps.

Comment here if you have additional questions, happy to help.

Abhishek

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secondabhi_aws
answered a year ago
  • IOEggception
    a year ago

    Thanks Abhishek. I've tried reading a little about the AWS Health APi, but havent been able to make sense of it yet for the purpose of me doing on-demand health checks on a given AWS resource. I can try looking into it more, but let me ask this 1 question about it. When you say it provides API operations to "get information about events", does that mean you can only use it to view active "events" or "incidents" happening, or can you use it to just check in on a service like SQS to see if it has any known current outages? I guess my question really is "what is an event"?

  • secondabhi_aws EXPERT
    a year ago

    That's a very great question, Health API would give you the overall result and you'd need to add a logic to further parse it for specific service. Refer this documentation.

    There are two types of AWS Health events:

    Public events are service events that aren't specific to an account. For example, if there is an issue with Amazon EC2 in an AWS Region, AWS Health provides information about the event, even if you don't use services or resources in that Region.

    Account-specific events are specific to your account or an account in your organization. For example, if there's an issue with an Amazon EC2 instance in a Region that you use, AWS Health provides information about the event and the list of affected Amazon EC2 instances.

    Also, take a look at this blog post, which is very well written.

    Important: I didn't mention this, AWS Health is only available to Business or Enterprise support plan. Hope you already have one of those.

  • secondabhi_aws EXPERT
    a year ago

    Do you have any additional questions, happy to help.

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You have personal health dashboard for service.

However, have you considered using event bridge to alert on aws health events and then react to them? I know you mention them in your question.

Then this can trigger your lambda function or step function to perform and action such as a fail over.

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Gary Mclean
answered a year ago

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