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AWS outage? A better way to monitor outages in Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs no introduction. It's one of the most popular services in the world. Or actually, the most popular cloud infrastructure provider (34%) according to this study. Like in any other service, there are outages. For people running their infrastructures, there's a good chance that outages have impacted your business in the past. And the reality for AWS (or any other service) is that there's a good chance it will happen again.

Cloudflare outage? The Domino Effect!

This day started a bit abruptly, with several services experiencing outages due to a Cloudflare outage. It started approximately at 06:34 AM UTC. Check the official announcement. What came next was a domino effect through many popular services over the internet. Major services like Gitlab, Notion, Hubspot, Digital Ocean, Monday, Recurly, and a lot more. We registered incidents from 230 services between the outage was published until it was marked as resolved.

Introducing our Zapier Integration

Now you can get your alerts on incidents anywhere you want! It's very probable that you already know Zapier, but if you don't know it, here's a brief intro. Zapier is one of everyone's favorite tools on the internet. It connects everything! You can easily connect systems that don't speak directly with each other or automate repetitive tasks with no code. That's one of the reasons we decided to create an integration. It was the easiest way to connect IsDown with the world 😁.