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Life & fun · December 1, 2022

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An independent status page for AWS

Hi HN, I’m one of the co-founders of a startup named Metrist and today we released a free, no login required, “real” status page for AWS service health. I know we aren’t the first to do this, but I think we take a unique approach and we are excited about what we can do with this, and our full product, going forward. As a company, Metrist exists to test and monitor the functionality, performance, and availability of the web’s most built upon cloud products. For this status page, we are running functional tests against 15 of the most popular AWS services, from 5 North American regions, as…

An independent status page for AWS launched on December 1, 2022 with 12 votes, #1,209 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Metrist offers a free, no-login-required status page that monitors AWS service health through functional tests rather than simple ping checks. Running tests against 15 popular AWS services across 5 North American regions every 25 seconds, it verifies that services actually perform their intended functions. The tool is designed for developers and operations teams who rely on AWS and need real-time visibility into service availability and performance issues.

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Hi HN, I’m one of the co-founders of a startup named Metrist and today we released a free, no login required, “real” status page for AWS service health. I know we aren’t the first to do this, but I think we take a unique approach and we are excited about what we can do with this, and our full product, going forward.…

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