Unleash the Power of the Organizational View in AWS Health : Real-Time Alerts to Your Inbox

Unleash the Power of the Organizational View in AWS Health : Real-Time Alerts to Your Inbox

AWS Health is a service that provides real-time visibility into the health of your AWS services, accounts, and resources. It helps you:

• Stay informed about service disruptions and maintenance activities.
• Monitor the health of your AWS resources.
• Receive alerts and notifications for potential issues.
• Proactively manage your AWS environment.

AWS Health provides an organizational view that allows you to monitor the health of your entire AWS Organization.

Aggregate your Health events from all member AWS accounts in your AWS organization. This provides a centralized view for all events, such as operational issues, scheduled maintenance, and account notifications.

Key features of the organizational view in AWS Health:

• Centralized dashboard: Provides a single view of the health status of all accounts and resources within your organization.
• Account health: Displays the health status of each account in your organization, resources and account activity.
• Health events: Provides information about service disruptions, maintenance activities, and other relevant events.
• Alerts and notifications: Allows you to configure alerts and notifications for health events at the organization level.

Enabling Organizational view:

• Setup an AWS Organization: If you don’t already have one, create an AWS Organization using the AWS Organizations console. Invite or create accounts to join your organization.
• Enable organizational view for AWS Health : After setting up AWS Organization, sign into the Management account and enable AWS Health to aggregate all events.

• Delegated Administrator for Organizational view (Optional): You can register a member account in your AWS organization, which provides the flexibility for different teams to view and manage health events across your organization.

To establish a delegated administrator, from the management account in your organization, call the following AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command. You can use this command from the management account. In the following example command, replace ACCOUNT_ID with the member account ID that you want to register along with the AWS Health service principal “health.amazonaws.com”.

“aws organizations register-delegated-administrator — account-id ACCOUNT_ID — service-principal health.amazonaws.com”

Here, I have made one of my member accounts as the Delegated Administrator for the Organizational view of AWS Health dashboard

Now, you can have a centralized view of all health events across accounts in your Organization

Get mail notification for Health events in your Organization:

Use Management account or Delegated Administrator account where Organizational view for Health is enabled

• Create a SNS topic with mail subscription

• Create an EventBridge rule with event pattern as Health and target as SNS topic created in previous step

With this setup, you will receive mail notification for any health event in your Organization.

Benefits of organizational view in AWS Health:

• Proactively monitor the health of your entire AWS Organization.
• Identify and address potential issues across multiple accounts.
• Ensure consistent health standards across your organization.
• Improve service availability and reliability.
• Enhance security and compliance.

By effectively using the organizational view in AWS Health, you can ensure the overall health and reliability of your AWS Organization, helping you achieve your business objectives and avoid unnecessary downtime.

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Comments

[Lingesh B AWS Community Builders]

"Consolidating health events across an entire organization is a major win for operational visibility, but it definitely raises the noise-to-signal ratio. For those who have set up the Organizational View, are you primarily relying on the native User Notifications for email alerts, or have you deployed a framework like AWS Health Aware (AHA) to route these into your existing incident management systems? I’m curious to see how you’re filtering the critical infrastructure events from the routine maintenance noise."