This is widely known and acknowledged within the AWS community and has been for a long time. It's absolutely infuriating that AWS not only does not fix this, they consistently understate the severity of problems. Issues like the outage yesterday cause widespread problems for hundreds of companies. Thousands of engineers work late to address problems. Millions upon millions of end users are impacted. AWS basically shrugs and moves on. Consider this update from AWS support yesterday evening: Hello, Greetings for the day! This is an update that starting at 6:01 PM PDT, we experienced elevated error rates and latencies for AWS services within the US-EAST-1 Region. The issue affected AWS service APIs, with no impact to data plane services such as EC2 instances, EBS volumes, or Elastic Load Balancers. We started to see recovery at 7:55 PM PDT and were fully recovered by 9:25 PM PDT. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally. Please let us know if you still see issues and we'd be glad to assist you further. Have a great day! We value your feedback. Please share your experience by rating this correspondence using the AWS Support Center link at the end of this correspondence. Each correspondence can also be rated by selecting the stars in top right corner of each correspondence within the AWS Support Center. The language is infuriating. From the enthusiastic greeting to the intentionally vague and misleading "elevated error rates" to the focus on what was not impacted to the chipper sign off and the boilerplate but bullshit "we value your feedback," this email reads like a dismissive "nothing to see here" moment. It'd be less grating to just see some honesty, acknowledgement, and an org-wide mea culpa in these situations. I mean, many services "experienced elevated error rates" for ~3 hours. It's not a small thing. These issues have happened repeatedly over the past ~6 months. It's getting harder to trust AWS as a reliable business partner. And I say this as a long standing fan boy. More on reddit.com

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The Personal Health Dashboard seems like what you are looking for. I also subscribe to the relevant RSS feeds on the health dashboard to get notified if there are any issues. Edit: You could make custom dashboard using the Health API . But it's the same data as the Personal Health Dashboard afaik. More on reddit.com