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Amazon has a status page for all AWS services and provides RSS feeds for each: http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Trust me, this doesn't cover all their issues. Don't get me wrong, we love our AWS stack, but we've had all sorts of weird stuff happen over the years, from zombie ELBs hitting the wrong hosts to invisible SGs... sometimes we see from twitter that others are seeing the same things, but AWS don't ever confirm or deny anything, they just stall then tell you when it's fixed. I guess its support in terms of something to give to your PHB, but when something goes wrong within AWS, it's a very black box - which isn't surprising.

I know.

Sadly this page is not updated often enough. I mean, when there's a known issue on one of the aws service this page display a little "i" icon, which is barely visible.

And when, you encounter some problem with your AWS stuff that clearly come from their side, if the problem it's not wide, they just say nothing. At that point you can search yourself for hour to be sure it's not your responsibility, and after-woods, you just wait, blind.

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