According to the AWS Status Page
Alternate link is available at: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home
AWS Web Console Down?
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#32https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Shows AWS Web Console: 9:50 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates when loading the AWS Management Console.
AWS keeps their status page up2date these days. It's probably easier to check that page than combing through posts on HN, but to each their own. This makes me wonder... do people keep posting and looking here because they want an element of control, they don't trust or know about status.aws.amazon.com ... or why?
The status page was stating all green for about 20 or so minutes after this post was made.
Not really "up2date", so this post was valuable for everyone that was seeing errors and unsure how widespread it was.
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#33It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't
I want status pages to show traffic to the status page itself over the last 24 hours (or some time period). A sudden uptick in traffic but green across the board would indicate that there is an issue, but they just haven't updated the page yet.
Yes! I have yet to convince anyplace I've been working to do this, but I do make increases in traffic volume to status pages generate non-critical alerts. Has caught out a few problems much earlier than they otherwise would have been discovered.
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#34You should be able to login through https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region...
And then switch to us-east-1 services?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always wondered about this strategy. I'm a developer and a business owner. I'm in AWS's core target demographic. I know three things about AWS: - Their products have weird names - Their web console has horrible UX - The lie about uptime and server status I'm not looking to switch to AWS soon.
I take it you have never used Azure's UI? AWS is much better. I can't comment on Google Cloud because I've never used it.
Some of the AWS UX is okay but the parameter store UX for the web console is some of the worst I've seen. It's difficult to navigate and paginate, and the search function is barely worth using. It would be amazing if they had fuzzy search on the names.
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#36Everyone take the day off.
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#37https://status.aws.amazon.com/ Shows AWS Web Console: 9:50 AM PDT We are investigating increased error rates when loading the AWS Management Console.
AWS keeps their status page up2date these days. It's probably easier to check that page than combing through posts on HN, but to each their own. This makes me wonder... do people keep posting and looking here because they want an element of control, they don't trust or know about status.aws.amazon.com ... or why?
The date on the status page is 9:50 AM PDT, the original poster posted well before that.
It isn't historically uncommon for AWS outage information to be posted and commented on here well before the status page is updated.
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#39It's annoying how often status pages for various services (when they even exist at all) show that things are working when they really aren't
If you can write a perfect automated status page - can't you basically write perfect integration tests and make sure no bad code gets deployed? Bit of a chicken and an egg problem :)
Do you write every single test for your codebase? Do you have control over every line of code that gets deployed? The purpose of monitoring is to detect issues, because preventing them entirely is next to impossible.
By your logic if you can write perfect integration tests, can't you write perfect application code that doesn't need to be tested?
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I take it you have never used Azure's UI? AWS is much better. I can't comment on Google Cloud because I've never used it.
Some of the AWS UX is okay but the parameter store UX for the web console is some of the worst I've seen. It's difficult to navigate and paginate, and the search function is barely worth using. It would be amazing if they had fuzzy search on the names.
I do agree that the CloudWatch console search is like this, where you need to type out the entire string from the beginning to get it to match. But for the CloudFormation and Lambda consoles, I can just type a piece of the string I'm trying to find and all matching will just show up.