Overview of the AWS Service Health Dashboard

AWS publishes service health status across all data centers located in its various Regions. This is the first place you should consider investigating if a service appears to be non-responsive. AWS offers SLAs for its various service offerings and you can get a full list of these at https://aws.amazon.com/legal/service-level-agreements/.

You can see an example overview of the AWS Service Health Dashboard here:

Figure 2.7 – AWS Service Health Dashboard. Image courtesy of AWS (https://status.aws.amazon.com/)

In the next section, we move on to look at the AWS PHD. Similar to the previously discussed Service Health Dashboard, the PHD provides information on services that affect your resources and workloads. You can access the PHD once logged in to the AWS Management Console of your AWS Account. We look at how to create your AWS Account in Chapter 3, Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations...