Building a Professional Status Page Platform

March 4, 2026 · 3 min · statustiger.com

What Is Status Tiger?

Status Tiger is a hosted status page platform that lets teams communicate service health to their users in real time. Instead of scrambling to post updates on social media during an outage, you get a dedicated page that shows current status, active incidents, and historical uptime data. Your customers always know what is happening.

Each status page is fully branded and loads instantly through CloudFront edge caching, so it stays available even when your own infrastructure is down.

Architecture Overview

User Request
  -> CloudFront (edge cache)
    -> S3 (static page assets)

Status Update / Incident Report
  -> API Gateway
    -> Lambda (process update)
      -> DynamoDB (store incident + component status)
        -> S3 (regenerate static page)
          -> CloudFront invalidation

The key design decision is pre-rendering. When an incident is created or updated, a Lambda function regenerates the static HTML and pushes it to S3. This means status pages are served as static files rather than requiring database queries on every page load. The result is sub-100ms response times globally.

Real-Time Incident Tracking

Incidents flow through a simple lifecycle: Investigating, Identified, Monitoring, and Resolved. Each state change is timestamped and stored in DynamoDB, creating a full audit trail. Teams can post updates at each stage so customers see exactly what is being done.

Component-level status lets you break your service into parts (API, Dashboard, Billing) and report on each independently. A partial outage on billing does not have to show the entire platform as down.

Uptime Reporting

Status Tiger tracks uptime metrics over 24-hour, 7-day, 30-day, and 90-day windows. DynamoDB stores granular check results, and the page displays uptime percentages alongside a visual bar chart of recent availability. Historical incidents are listed with full timelines so users can review past events.

Because the pages are static and served from CloudFront, the status page itself maintains effectively 100% availability, independent of your application infrastructure.