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In this lesson we explain the AWS Health Dashboard: what it is, how it surfaces account-specific and public service events, and how to integrate Health events with automation (EventBridge, SNS, Lambda) for faster detection and remediation.
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What is the AWS Health Dashboard?

The AWS Health Dashboard provides visibility, alerts, and remediation guidance for events that can affect your AWS environment. It reports incidents, scheduled maintenance, operational changes, and other issues that may impact service availability or resource health. The dashboard helps you:
  • See which specific resources in your account are impacted.
  • Get timing, status updates, and recommended mitigation steps.
  • Integrate notifications and automation to reduce downtime.

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Types of events

AWS Health surfaces two main event categories. Use the table below to quickly understand the differences and where to look for each:

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Information provided by AWS Health

  • Account-specific event details for private events: which resources are affected, start/end times, and recommended remediation steps.
  • Service-level status and updates for public events: region-level impacts and service-wide incident information.
  • Event metadata (status, severity, affected regions, event ARN) that can be consumed programmatically when API access is available.

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Integrations and automated notifications

AWS Health can be integrated with core AWS services so your team automatically receives alerts and can trigger workflows to respond: Example EventBridge event pattern for AWS Health:
Use a pattern like the above in an EventBridge rule and configure an SNS topic, Lambda function, or another target to respond automatically.
Programmatic access to the AWS Health API (to consume health events via SDKs or the API) requires a Business or Enterprise support plan. The Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) in the AWS Management Console is available to accounts for viewing account-specific events without that support plan, but API access is limited unless you have Business/Enterprise support.

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Personal Health Dashboard (PHD) vs Service Health Dashboard (SHD)

Understand which dashboard to use depending on the scope of the event:

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Why use AWS Health?

  • Faster detection and response through near real-time alerts.
  • Actionable guidance specific to your account and resources.
  • Integration with EventBridge, SNS, and Lambda enables automated remediation and notification workflows.
  • Better planning for maintenance windows and reduced unplanned downtime.
  1. Configure EventBridge rules with the aws.health source to capture relevant health events.
  2. Route events to SNS or Lambda depending on whether you want notifications or automated remediation.
  3. Monitor PHD for account-specific issues and SHD for broader service outages.
  4. Use Health event metadata (timestamps, affected resources, event ARN) to drive incident processes.
Use AWS Health together with EventBridge and SNS to automate notifications and remediation. This reduces downtime and increases the resilience of your applications by routing important service and account-level events into your operational workflows.

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