CASE STUDY: AWS STATUS PAGE

The Amazon Web Services Status Page

The Amazon Web Services status page gives you more information that you'll probably ever want or need. The user experience is similar to that endured by users of the AWS dashboard, so it does have the merit of prefiguring the pain to come if you sign up to use their services. It's an awesome display of the number of data centres and services they offer, which is overwhelming in its complexity.

Awesome Complexity

The AWS status page is not afraid to show you all the details of their services, and leave you to try to work out just what is going on. Their primary status page is shown below, but this is only a small part of it - the entire page is too long to post here.

The end of the beginning of
the AWS status page

The very top of the AWS Status page

Past Failures

The page has become infamous due to a failure in 2017, where the failure status icons of the page itself failed to load, because they were hosted on AWS infrastructure, which had gone down.