Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Health Dashboard

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has recently incorporated a health dashboard, which displays the health of the various AWS services. This is a very important feature since some of these services, especially Amazon S3, failed a couple of times recently with a downtime of several hours. The most important thing is that you can register to the RSS feeds of these different services and get notified when failures occur, performance degradation occurs or when the services come back to life. This would provide somewhat of an incentive for companies which are reluctant to host their systems on Amazon's infrastructure using Amazon We Services.

To take this one step further, it would be good if SMS, Pager & Email alerts can be provided when services fail. This will alert the interested parties much quicker.

This would also be very helpful for companies deploying WSO2's Open Source SOA products in an autoscaling configuration [1] on Amazon EC2. [1] is in early draft status, and shows how Apache Axis2 & WSO2 WSAS Web services can be autoscaled on Amazon EC2. The same concept can be adopted for other products as well.

1. Autoscaling Axis2 Web Services on Amazon EC2