Proposed new feature, alert when AWS service is down

[trivisonno]

Not a bug report.

I tried this afternoon to use certain zappa features (tail, update) and received unfamiliar errors.
botocore.errorfactory.ServiceException: An error occurred (ServiceException) when calling the UpdateFunctionCode operation (reached max retries: 4): An error occurred and the request cannot be processed.

I tried researching the error message but wasn't finding any good advice. Thankfully I checked https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status and discovered that Lambda and API Gateway was having issues. Everything is working fine now, it was entirely an AWS service issue.

I'm not sure how this could be executed, but maybe with some errors it would be worthwhile for zappa to check if AWS is reporting any issues with the resources zappa commonly uses, and report that somehow in error messages? It would've saved me a lot of time and headaches today. Then again, I'm just an amateur programmer.

[monkut]

Since zappa is mainly a "lambda" based service, it may be difficult to provide an alert that lambda is down if your lambda is not running.

Alarms can be configured in AWS, which may resolve your issue.

[monkut]

Not clear how this could be handled, and considered out-of-scope for zappa.

closing.