AWS Health

AWS Health provides visibility into events that might affect your AWS resources and services — planned maintenance, service disruptions, security notifications, and account-specific alerts from AWS. It's the official communication channel from AWS about anything that could impact your workloads.

What It Covers

AWS Health events fall into two categories:

Service events — issues affecting AWS services broadly, like a regional outage, a performance degradation, or a service disruption. These are the same events shown on the AWS Service Health Dashboard, but surfaced within your account.

Account-specific events — events that affect your specific resources. An EC2 instance scheduled for retirement because its underlying hardware is failing, an RDS instance that needs a maintenance update applied, a certificate expiring in your account, or a security notification about an IAM policy that AWS has flagged. These are the most actionable events — they require a response from you.

The Personal Health Dashboard

The AWS Health console shows your personalized event feed — only events relevant to the services and regions where you have active resources. You don't have to wade through notifications about services you don't use or regions you don't operate in.

EventBridge Integration

AWS Health events can be routed to EventBridge, enabling automated responses. When AWS schedules an EC2 instance for retirement, an EventBridge rule can trigger a Lambda function that automatically stops the instance, captures a snapshot, and launches a replacement on new hardware — all without a human noticing there was ever an issue.

AWS Health Aware (AHA)

For organizations using multiple accounts, AWS Health Aware is an open- source solution that aggregates Health events from all accounts in an organization and routes notifications to Slack, Teams, or email. It gives operations teams a single feed of all health events across the entire organization without logging into each account individually.