Outage alerts
CheckedGet Slack alerts when AWS goes down
Email alerts are free for up to 5 providers — Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery come with paid plans. Every alert is driven by AWS's official status feed, checked about every 10 minutes around the clock.
How to get AWS outage alerts
- Create your free account. Sign in with GitHub, Google, or an emailed link on the account page — no password, no card.
- Add AWS to your alerts. The 60-second onboarding asks which providers you rely on; pick AWS and free email alerts are live immediately (up to 5 providers).
- Want it in Slack or Discord? Paid plans add those channels plus raw webhooks: create a subscription, paste your webhook URL, and press Send test to prove the wiring in seconds. The alert setup guide walks through creating the webhook URL in each app.
Why it matters
Recent AWS incident activity
AWS was free of major outages 100% of observed time across 11 monitored days in the last 90 days, including 208h of partial or regional impact. The official feed logged 2 incident entries in that window — exactly the changes subscribers hear about first.
Increased connectivity issues and API Error Rates
What triggers AWS alerts
New incident
A fresh incident appeared on the official feed and started within the last 24 hours — historical backfills never alert.
Incident update
An open incident moved through its lifecycle (investigating → identified → monitoring …).
Incident resolved
An incident was resolved upstream, or disappeared from the provider's active feed.
Status change
The provider's overall status flipped (e.g. Operational → Partial outage).
Every delivery is claimed exactly once per event, retried once on failure, and recorded — overlapping check runs can never double-notify you. Alerts are driven by AWS's official status source: the official AWS status page remains the authoritative reference.
Prefer to pull instead of push?
Everything on this page is also machine-readable, free, and account-less: subscribe to the AWS RSS feed, poll the JSON API, or embed the live AWS status badge in a README or dashboard.
FAQ
AWS alert questions
Short answers to what alert subscribers ask most.
How fast will I know when AWS goes down?
OutageDeck checks AWS's official status feed about every 10 minutes, around the clock. The first check that sees a new incident or a status change fires your alert immediately, so email, Slack, Discord, and webhook subscribers typically know within minutes of the official feed changing.
Are AWS outage alerts free?
Yes — every account includes free email alerts for up to 5 providers, no card required. Paid plans add Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery, more subscriptions, and higher API quotas.
Which AWS events trigger an alert?
New incidents on the official feed (when they started within the last 24 hours), incident lifecycle changes, resolutions, and provider-level status changes. A subscription can watch your whole stack, only AWS, or specific AWS services.
Can I follow AWS status without an account?
Yes. The AWS RSS feed, the public JSON API, and the embeddable status badge are free with no sign-up — alerts exist so changes get pushed to you instead of you re-checking a page.
Outage alerts
Ready to stop refreshing status pages?
Free email alerts for up to 5 providers — no card, live in about a minute. Paid plans add Slack, Discord, and webhook delivery across your whole stack, plus higher API quotas.