Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map – View and analyze internet health

The article introduces a new feature in Amazon CloudWatch called the Internet Weather Map, which provides a global view of internet health and performance issues affecting clients accessing AWS resources.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The Internet Weather Map displays red and yellow circles indicating active availability or performance issues, respectively, across the world
• Each issue affects a specific city-network combination representing the location and Autonomous System Number (ASN) used to access AWS resources
• The map can be zoomed in to view details of issues in specific regions or cities
• The ListInternetEvents API allows programmatic access to the events data
• Future enhancements planned include displaying causes of outages, ISP-specific views, and impact on public SaaS applications
• The CloudWatch Internet Monitor service provides additional features like health event notifications and traffic insights for monitoring applications