Hi ProductHunt! At Taloflow, we depend on AWS, and so do many of our customers. If AWS is down, we've got to know! Unfortunately, the official status site is a bit vague on details, and popular downtime detectors are just not suited for this purpose. With @austin_pena and @anu_joy leading the charge, we set up "Is AWS Down?" as soon as we could to provide timely and more granular insights into AWS outages. Using the AWS API, we invoke 7 different kinds of services directly, including Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, DynamoDB, IAM, and API Gateway. If the service does not respond in 30 seconds we mark it as failed. (Due to how AWS sets up their availability zones, we may experience issues that you do not, or vice versa.) The service is currently available in 10 AWS regions: us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-2, sa-east-1, ap-south-1, ap-southeast-2, and ca-central-1. We run this service on Google Cloud Platform so that the service is available when you need it most (i.e.: when AWS is down!). We plan to expand this free service we built for the developer community to other regions and cloud platforms soon. Happy debugging! Taloflow Team --- Known issues: - Voting game has a lag - Email alerts send for every available region - Email alerts do not route to 6 different providers (will update the setup form)