Look at the US-EAST-1 RSS feeds for AWS and see if there are any outages

aws_status.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import feedparser
import time

rss_feeds = {
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/elb-us-east-1.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/elasticache-us-east-1.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/rds-us-east-1.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/s3-us-standard.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/vpc-us-east-1.rss",
	"http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/directconnect-us-east-1.rss"
}

failures = []

for rss_feed in rss_feeds:
	rss_data = feedparser.parse(rss_feed)

	if any(rss_data['entries']):
		latest_entry = rss_data['entries'][0]
		title = latest_entry['title']
		published = latest_entry['published_parsed']
		days_ago = (time.time() - time.mktime(published)) / (24 * 60 * 60)

		if "RESOLVED" not in title and "Service is operating normally" not in title:
			failures.append(title)

print failures