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Re:Global Outage of AWS CloudFront CDN on Nov 26 2014 by hueving on Thursday November 27, 2014 @02:08PM (#8668477)
Don't host it on AWS. :)

This is actually a hard problem because many of these services are localized using BGP anycasting. So the status checking would have to have probe nodes all over the world.

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Re:Global Outage of AWS CloudFront CDN on Nov 26 2014 by mnutt on Thursday November 27, 2014 @02:24PM (#8668520)
We learned about this particular outage from health checks we had set up in Pingdom. Somebody like them could expose those checks as a public service, and try to become the go-to place for getting the real status of AWS.
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