Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view of the status of the AWS services that power your applications, enabling you to quickly see when AWS is experiencing issues that may impact you. The dashboard displays relevant and timely information to help you manage events in progress, and provides proactive notification to help you plan for scheduled activities. And with alerts that are automatically triggered by changes in the health of AWS resources, you receive event visibility and guidance to help quickly diagnose and resolve issues. Learning Objectives: • Learn about the capabilities and features of AWS Personal Health Dashboard • Learn about the benefits of AWS Personal Health Dashboard • Learn about the different use cases • Learn how to get started using AWS Personal Health Dashboard and the Health API

1. © 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Ram Atur, Senior Product Manager, AWS
January 17, 2017
AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Additional Transparency and Control for
Your AWS Environment

2. What to Expect from the Session
What did we announce?
Why did we build it?
How does the Personal Health Dashboard work?
Getting started
Demo!
What else is coming?

3. What did we announce?

4. PHD
Amazon
CloudWatch
Events
Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard
Visibility and transparency
into your resources
Custom notifications and
automated actions
Remediation guidance
and knowledge articles

5. Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard

6. Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard
- Available today for all AWS customers
https://phd.aws.amazon.com/
- Powered by AWS Health API
- Notifications and actions through Amazon CloudWatch
Events
- Persistent notifications through new navigation bar alerts
- Hundreds of known operational, billing, security event
types live at launch

7. Why did we build it?

8. AWS Service Health Dashboard

9. AWS growth and adoption of AWS
- 16 Regions and 42 Availability Zones
- 90+ services and growing
- Cloud has become the new normal
- Diverse segments and workloads

10. Increased transparency and visibility
- Service Health Dashboard too generic
- Increased transparency into underlying infrastructure
- Remediation guidance for faster time-to-resolution
- AWS Health API for easy integration
- Custom notifications with predictable delivery
- Automated actions for auto-remediation

11. How does the Personal Health
Dashboard work?

12. AWS Services and
resources you use
Personal Health
Dashboard
• describe-events
• describe-event-details
• describe-affected-entities
• …
API
• Set Rules to extract events of
interest
• Set Targets for rules (Amazon
SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS
Lambda, Amazon Kinesis)
Push notifications
through
CloudWatch
Events
Health
Service
In-house or
third-party
monitoring
and event
management
systems

13. AWS service integrations
Amazon
EC2
Amazon EBS
Amazon
SES
Amazon
VPC
AWS Direct
Connect
Elastic Load
Balancing
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
ElastiCache
Amazon
RDS
Resource and
service-level
insights into
health
Service-level
insights into
health
All AWS services

14. AWS Region coverage
- All AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China (Beijing)

15. Getting started

16. Prerequisites
- AWS account
- AWS IAM credentials for a user with the following policy
You’re all set!

17. Getting started with the Personal Health Dashboard
- From AWS Service Health Dashboard
- From AWS website
- From AWS Management Console navigation bar alert

18. Let’s look at the
Personal Health Dashboard

19. Getting started with the AWS Health APIs
- APIs in all AWS SDK languages specified in
https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
- Endpoint: health.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
- AWS CLI access
- Documentation can be found at
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/APIReferenc
e/Welcome.html

20. Demo!

21. Common use cases
- Troubleshooting
- Full visibility for tagged resources
- Automated routing of relevant notifications

22. Common use cases
- Troubleshooting
- Full visibility for tagged resources
- Automated routing of relevant notifications

23. Common use cases
- Troubleshooting
- Full visibility for tagged resources
- Automated routing of relevant notifications

24. What else is coming?

25. - Invest with AWS services to better correlate impact
- Additional partner integrations
- Additional region coverage
- Templates for automating remediation steps
- AWS Health automation code samples
- Plugins for Slack, SNS, and SMS channels
What else is coming?

26. Resources
- Learn more about Personal Health Dashboard and Health
APIs at https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/phd/
- Access your dashboard at https://phd.aws.amazon.com/
- Developer documentation can be found at
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/APIReference/
Welcome.html
- Find out about Splunk App for AWS integration with AWS
Health at http://blogs.splunk.com/tag/aws-health/

27. Thank you!