Document history for AWS Health - AWS Health

Document history for AWS Health

The following table describes the documentation for this release of AWS Health.

  • API version: 2016-08-04

The following table describes important updates to the AWS Health documentation, beginning in August 28, 2020. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to receive notifications about the updates.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Manage AWS Health notifications in AWS User Notifications

For more information, see Manage notifications in AWS User Notifications.

January 16, 2025

Corrected JSON in Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge

For more information, see Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

September 3, 2024

Updated information on downloading affected resources

For more information, see Affected resources view.

July 27, 2024

Removed Internetwork traffic privacy from the Security section AWS Health documentation

For more information, see Security in AWS Health.

March 27, 2024

Updated the AWS Health Dashboard – Service health and Planned lifecycle events for AWS Health documentation.

For more information, see AWS Health Dashboard – Service health and Planned lifecycle events for AWS Health.

February 15, 2024

Removed a duplicate bullet point in Creating an EventBridge rule for AWS Health

Removed a duplicate bullet point in Creating an EventBridge rule for AWS Health.

December 4, 2023

Added documentation for Planned Lifecycle Events

For more information, see Planned Lifecycle Events for AWS Health.

October 31, 2023

Updated documentation for AWSHealthFullAccess

You can now use the AWSHealthFullAccess managed policy in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See AWS managed policies for AWS Health.

October 16, 2023

Added documentation for configuring AWS User Notifications in AWS Health.

You can now configure AWS User Notifications in AWS Health. For more information, see Configure AWS User Notifications for AWS Health.

August 30, 2023

Added documentation for the delegated administrator feature to the Aggregating AWS Health events section.

For more information, see Delegated administrator organizational view.

July 27, 2023

SLR policy update

Update to AWS managed policy: Health_OrganizationsServiceRolePolicy. For more information, see AWS managed policies for AWS Health.

July 19, 2023

AWS Health schema now supports event metadata

You can now receive event metadata from AWS Health events. For more information, see Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

June 20, 2023

Updated documentation for Amazon EventBridge

You can now use an Amazon EventBridge rule to monitor both account-specific and public events. For more information, see Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

May 2, 2023

Added documentation for AWS managed policies

Added documentation for the AWS managed policies for AWS Health and Using service-linked roles for AWS Health.

January 18, 2023

Added time zone setting documentation

Use the new time zone feature to view the AWS Health Dashboard in your local time zone or in UTC. For more information, see Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard – Your account health and the AWS Health Dashboard – Service health.

September 21, 2022

Updated documentation

Added documentation for AWS Health Aware. For more information, see AWS Health Aware.

May 25, 2022

Updated documentation

The Service Health Dashboard and the AWS Personal Health Dashboard have been rebranded to the AWS Health Dashboard.

For more information, see Getting started with your AWS Health Dashboard – Your account health and the AWS Health Dashboard – Service health.

February 28, 2022

Updated documentation for Amazon EventBridge

New topic for AWS Health to use Amazon EventBridge to monitor for Health events. For more information, see Monitoring AWS Health events with Amazon EventBridge.

February 3, 2022

Updated documentation

If you have an Enterprise On-Ramp Support plan, you can use the AWS Health API.

November 24, 2021

Added documentation

New topic for AWS Health concepts. For more information, see Concepts for AWS Health.

July 29, 2021

Updated documentation for CloudWatch Events

Added a section about how to create a rule for multiple services and event type categories. For more information, see Creating a rule for multiple services and categories.

May 7, 2021

Updated documentation for CloudWatch Events

Updated the section to automate AWS Systems Manager actions for Amazon CloudWatch Events rules. For more information, see Automating actions for Amazon EC2 instances.

April 28, 2021

Updated documentation for CloudWatch Events

Added a section to receive AWS Health events in your chat client. For more information, see Receiving AWS Health events with AWS Chatbot.

March 16, 2021

Updated documentation

The following topics are updated:

January 29, 2021

Added the AWS Health Dashboard for organizational view in the AWS Health console

You can use the AWS Health console to enable the organizational view feature. You can then view health events for member accounts in your AWS organization.

December 14, 2020

High availability endpoint demo

You can use the example code to determine the active regional endpoint and signing AWS Region for AWS Health.

October 22, 2020

Updates to the AWS Health User Guide

Organization updates and added an RSS feed so that you can subscribe for the latest updates to the AWS Health documentation.

August 28, 2020

Earlier updates

Change Description Date
Updated the organizational view topic to include examples. See Aggregating AWS Health events across accounts. June 3, 2020
Security and AWS Health Added information about security considerations when using AWS Health. See Security in AWS Health. May 5, 2020
Added new section to explain how to use organizational view to events aggregated across all accounts in AWS Organizations. See Aggregating AWS Health events across accounts. December 18, 2019
Added new section "Resource- and Action-based Conditions" to explain Events restrictions vended by the AWS Health API. See Identity and access management for AWS Health. August 2, 2018
Added a note about the visibility of AWS Health information. See Identity and access management for AWS Health. August 16, 2017
Service release. AWS Health released. December 1, 2016