Company
Date Published
Author
Twilio
Word count
520
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Aws Status Hotline via Twilio is a simple project that uses the Twilio API to provide an instant hotline for customers to call in and get the status of various Amazon Web Services (AWS) services, such as S3 and EC2. The project was built using PHP and exploits the fact that AWS provides an RSS feed for its status updates on its website. However, the RSS feeds were found to be unreliable and did not return the expected status information. Instead, a custom solution was developed to parse the HTML content of the status page to extract the service statuses, which are then read out to the caller using TwiML. The hotline is available at a Seattle phone number and can be accessed by calling `(206) 866-5918`.