What is the AWS Health Dashboard?
The AWS Health Dashboard provides personalized insights into the health of AWS services affecting your workloads. While the general AWS Service Health Dashboard shows global status, the Account Health Dashboard filters events specifically for your resources and regions.
The service proactively notifies you about planned maintenance, service disruptions, and security advisories affecting your AWS resources. With the Health API (from Business Support), you can programmatically query these events and integrate them into your monitoring and incident management processes.
Core Features
- Personalized Events: Only events that affect your specific resources
- Proactive Notifications: Early warning of planned maintenance and disruptions
- Health API: Programmatic access to Health Events (from Business Support)
- EventBridge Integration: Automatic forwarding to monitoring systems
- Historical View: Past events and their impact on your resources
Typical Use Cases
Incident Management: Detect AWS-side disruptions affecting your applications before end users report them. Automatically forward Health Events to your incident management system.
Maintenance Planning: Receive early notifications about planned maintenance on EC2 instances, RDS databases, or other resources. Plan maintenance windows proactively.
Automated Responses: Configure EventBridge rules that automatically initiate countermeasures for specific Health Events, such as redirecting traffic during regional disruptions.
Benefits
- Personalized view instead of global status page
- Proactive notification before end-user impact
- Integration into existing monitoring workflows
- Basic dashboard free for all AWS customers
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory supports you with the AWS Health Dashboard: setting up automated Health Event processing, integration into monitoring systems, and designing proactive incident response processes.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the AWS Health Dashboard?
The AWS Health Dashboard shows personalized information about the health of AWS services that your applications use. Unlike the general Service Health Dashboard, it only shows events that affect your specific resources.
What is the difference between Service Health and Account Health?
The Service Health Dashboard shows the general status of all AWS services worldwide. The Account Health Dashboard (formerly Personal Health Dashboard) shows only events that affect your specific AWS resources and accounts.
Can I process AWS Health Events automatically?
Yes, with a Business or Enterprise Support plan, you can use the AWS Health API and Amazon EventBridge to automatically forward Health Events to your monitoring systems, Slack, or PagerDuty and trigger automated responses.