GET health endpoint

GET /health

Overview

Checks the availability of dependent AWS services and reports the per-service status.

Prerequisites

• Permissions for:
  • S3 bucket access
  • DynamoDB table description

Implementation / Steps

1. Perform a health check on the S3 bucket.
2. Retrieve DynamoDB table status.
3. Mark services as healthy if available.
4. Return overall system status.

Key Takeaways

• The current implementation always returns "OK" if no exception occurs.
• Does not distinguish partial failures.
• Useful for monitoring and uptime checks.