Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map – View and analyze internet health

The Internet has a plethora of moving parts: routers, switches, hubs, terrestrial and submarine cables, and connectors on the hardware side, and complex protocol stacks and configurations on the software side. When something goes wrong that slows or disrupts the Internet in a way that affects your customers, you want to be able to localize and understand the issue as quickly as possible.

New Map
The new Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map is here to help! Built atop of collection of global monitors operated by AWS, you get a broad, global view of Internet weather, with the ability to zoom in and understand performance and availability issues that affect a particular city. To access the map, open the CloudWatch Console, expand Network monitoring on the left, and click Internet Monitor. The map appears and displays weather for the entire world:

The red and yellow circles indicate current, active issues that ...