News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by koheripbal on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:57PM (#29517690)
This challenge is not specific to Amazon.

Being able to automatically detect system health is a non-trivial effort.

Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by bob778 on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:00PM (#29517701)
That’s not what’s being asked though - in all 3 events, they couldn’t manually update it. It’s clearly not a priority to fix it for even manual alerts.
Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by jjoonathan on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:11PM (#29517758)
They had all day to do it manually.
Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by moralestapia on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:34PM (#29517896)
>Be capable of spinning up virtualized instances (including custom drive configurations, network stacks, complex routing schemes, even GPUs) with a simple API call

But,

>Be incapable of querying the status of such things

Yeah, I don't believe it.

Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by saagarjha on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:18PM (#29517797)
As others mention, you can do it manually. But it’s also not that hard to do automatically: literally just spin up a “client” of your service and make sure it works.
Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by blackearl on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:00PM (#29517702)
Why automatic? Surely someone could have the responsibility to do it manually.
Re:Summary of the AWS Service Event in the Northern Virginia... by geenew on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:20PM (#29518097)
Or override the autogenerated values