On December 7, 2021, AWS suffered a major outage in its US‑East‑1 region, impacting tens of thousands of services—from streaming apps to SaaS dashboards to smart home devices. The outage lasted approximately 5 hours and demonstrated a critical truth:
When your cloud provider fails, so does your application—unless you detect it externally.
⚠️ What Happened
- AWS reported a severe disruption to several Amazon services and partner apps, including Amazon website, Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Alexa, etc.
- The root cause was an I/O degradation in Kinesis, which triggered a series of reliance failures across internal services.
- The issue took ~5 hours to fully resolve, with recovery beginning in the US‑East‑1 area and spilling over to other regions.
🚨 Why This Matters to You
- Most monitoring is inside your AWS account—so if AWS itself fails, your monitoring dies with it.
- Deploy pipelines, dashboards, and even incident responders didn’t know until users started complaining.
- You need external alerting to truly know when your app is impacted.
🔍 How Garmingo Status Protects You
Using Garmingo Status:
- 🌍 Health checks from multiple global locations
- 🚨 Instant alerts through Slack, Email, Telegram, Discord, Webhook
- 🧾 Public or private status pages to communicate during outages
- 📈 SLA tracking & PDF reports for compliance or transparency
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✅ Lessons Learned
| Insight | Action |
|---|---|
| Don’t rely only on provider-side monitoring | Add external uptime checks |
| Public status pages build trust | Share live updates with users |
| Track SLA over time | Hold yourself (not AWS) accountable |
| Use multi-location monitoring | Catch regional cloud issues fast |
🧘 TL;DR
Cloud providers fail. That’s not a surprise—it’s a fact.
But you don’t need to fail with them.
External, global monitoring with proactive alerting is your buffer.
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