About AWS
Amazon Web Services is the world's largest cloud platform, providing compute, storage, database, networking, and hundreds of other services. Most modern applications depend on at least one AWS service, making AWS status monitoring a critical part of your observability stack.
What Alert24 Monitors
Alert24 tracks the following AWS services through the official AWS Service Health Dashboard:
- Amazon EC2 — Elastic Compute Cloud (virtual servers)
- Amazon S3 — Simple Storage Service (object storage)
- Amazon RDS — Relational Database Service (managed databases)
- AWS Lambda — Serverless compute
- Amazon Route 53 — DNS and domain registration
- Amazon CloudFront — Content delivery network
- Amazon SES — Simple Email Service (transactional and marketing email)
Each service can be monitored by region, so you can track the specific AWS regions your infrastructure uses.
How to Set It Up
Step 1: Create a Service
Create a service in Alert24 for each AWS service you depend on:
- Go to Services > Add Service
- Name it descriptively (e.g., "AWS EC2 (us-east-1)" or "Amazon S3")
- Save
Step 2: Add a Status Page Check
- Go to Monitoring > Add Check
- Select Status Page Check
- Search for "AWS" or "Amazon Web Services"
- Select the specific AWS services and regions you use
- Link the check to the service you created
- Click Create
[Screenshot: Selecting AWS services and regions]
Step 3: Optional — Add to Your Status Page
If your customers should see the status of your AWS dependencies:
- Go to your Status Page settings
- Add the AWS services
- Consider grouping them under an "Infrastructure" category
What Happens When an Issue is Detected
When AWS reports an incident:
- Alert24 detects the status page update from the AWS Service Health Dashboard
- Your linked service status updates to reflect the AWS issue
- Your team receives an alert via configured notification channels
- Your status page reflects the issue if the AWS service is listed
- When AWS resolves the issue, the status automatically returns to Operational
Region-Specific Monitoring
AWS operates in multiple regions worldwide. Alert24 lets you monitor specific regions:
- US East (N. Virginia) — us-east-1
- US West (Oregon) — us-west-2
- EU (Ireland) — eu-west-1
- Asia Pacific (Tokyo) — ap-northeast-1
- And many more
Only monitor the regions you actually use. This reduces noise and ensures you're alerted about issues that affect your infrastructure specifically.
Common Scenarios
Your application runs on EC2
Monitor Amazon EC2 in your deployment region. EC2 outages directly affect your application availability.
You store files in S3
Monitor Amazon S3. S3 issues affect file uploads, downloads, static website hosting, and any service that reads from S3.
Your database is on RDS
Monitor Amazon RDS in your database region. RDS issues affect all database operations.
You use Lambda for serverless workloads
Monitor AWS Lambda. Lambda outages affect all serverless functions, including API handlers and background processors.
Your DNS uses Route 53
Monitor Amazon Route 53. DNS issues affect every service behind your domain — this is often the highest-impact AWS dependency.
AWS Status Page
AWS official status page: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
AWS provides per-service, per-region RSS feeds. Alert24 monitors these feeds automatically.