Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard - AWS Health
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Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard

You can use your AWS Health Dashboard to learn about AWS Health events. These events can affect your AWS services or AWS account. After you sign in to your account, the AWS Health Dashboard shows information in the following ways:

  • Your account events – This page shows events that are specific to your account. You can view open, recent, and scheduled changes. You can also view notifications and an event log that shows all events from the past 90 days.

  • Your organization events – This page shows events that are specific to your organization in AWS Organizations. You can view open, recent, and scheduled changes for your organization. You can also view notifications, as well as an event log that shows all organization events from the past 90 days.

Note

If you don't have an AWS account, you can use the AWS Health Dashboard to learn about general service availability.

If you have an account, we recommend that you sign in to your AWS Health Dashboard to get deeper insights into events and upcoming changes that might affect your services and resources.

Setting up your AWS account

Before you can enable AWS Health, you must have an AWS account. If you do not have an AWS account, complete the following steps to create one.

Sign up for an AWS account

To get started with AWS, you need an AWS account. For information about creating an AWS account, see Getting started with an AWS account in the AWS Account Management Reference Guide.