Show HN: An independent status page for AWS
metrist.io
I know we aren’t the first to do this, but I think we take a unique approach and we are excited about what we can do with this, and our full product, going forward.
As a company, Metrist exists to test and monitor the functionality, performance, and availability of the web’s most built upon cloud products.
For this status page, we are running functional tests against 15 of the most popular AWS services, from 5 North American regions, as frequently as every 25 seconds. These aren’t ping tests, rather we look for the service to do what it exists to do, evaluating the results and updating the status page when we see something unusual.
Yes, there are currently a number of limitations with this status page that we address with our full product. Right now, we only use a single AWS account of our own, and only in a single AZ per region, so the status may not reflect partial outages. We do plan to expand our visibility with data from more accounts, in more regions, and more AZs.
We’d love your feedback in the comments! And since AWS is a pretty reliable service, if you want to see how our status page looks when things aren’t healthy, check out our blog post here: https://metrist.io/blog/introducing-a-real-aws-status-page/