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title: "Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC"
description: "Teams building multi-Region architectures on AWS need to know which services are available per Region, but want that data deployed inside their VPC under their governance. This post introduces Capability Insights for AWS, a self-hosted dashboard that auto-refreshes Regional availability data every 24 hours, and Workload Analysis, which scans CloudTrail and CloudFormation to filter services to only those your account uses. Capability Insights deploys a static website backed by API Gateway, Lambda, and EventBridge within your VPC, pulling data from the centralized AWS Capabilities by Region S3 bucket. Workload Analysis reduces the scope from over 200 services to typically 20-30, attributing each resource type to the specific CloudFormation stacks that deploy it and showing property configurations in use. The dashboard provides a targeted view of service availability, API operations, and CloudFormation resource types per Region, enabling focused gap analysis for Regional expansion planning and helping identify service-availability gaps."
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# Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC

[AWS](https://yomu.fyi/company/aws) · Stefan Janjic · Oct 2, 2026

**Type:** Tutorial

## Summary

Teams building multi-Region architectures on AWS need to know which services are available per Region, but want that data deployed inside their VPC under their governance. This post introduces Capability Insights for AWS, a self-hosted dashboard that auto-refreshes Regional availability data every 24 hours, and Workload Analysis, which scans CloudTrail and CloudFormation to filter services to only those your account uses. Capability Insights deploys a static website backed by API Gateway, Lambda, and EventBridge within your VPC, pulling data from the centralized AWS Capabilities by Region S3 bucket. Workload Analysis reduces the scope from over 200 services to typically 20-30, attributing each resource type to the specific CloudFormation stacks that deploy it and showing property configurations in use. The dashboard provides a targeted view of service availability, API operations, and CloudFormation resource types per Region, enabling focused gap analysis for Regional expansion planning and helping identify service-availability gaps.

## Context

Teams building multi-Region architectures need a way to check service availability per Region, but want that data as infrastructure they own inside their VPC, refreshing on their schedule.

## Approach / What changed

Deploy Capability Insights for AWS and Workload Analysis as CloudFormation stacks in your AWS account. Capability Insights provides a self-hosted dashboard that auto-refreshes every 24 hours, pulling data from AWS’s centralized S3 bucket. Workload Analysis scans CloudTrail logs and CloudFormation stacks to narrow the service list to those your account actually uses.

## Takeaways

- Capability Insights for AWS deploys a searchable Regional availability dashboard that auto-refreshes every 24 hours, covering services, features, API operations, and CloudFormation resource types per Region.
- Workload Analysis reduces the service list from over 200 to typically 20-30 by scanning your account’s CloudTrail logs and CloudFormation stacks, attributing resource types to specific stacks.
- The dashboard runs entirely within your VPC using Lambda, API Gateway, and EventBridge, with data stored in your own S3 bucket and refreshed on a schedule you control.

## FAQ

### What are the prerequisites for deploying Capability Insights for AWS?

You need an AWS account with permissions to deploy CloudFormation stacks, a VPC with DNS resolution enabled, one public and one private subnet with S3 gateway endpoint, Node.js, and an S3 bucket for deployment assets.

### How does Workload Analysis filter services to only those my account uses?

Workload Analysis scans your AWS CloudTrail logs and CloudFormation stacks to identify which services and resource types your account actually uses, then narrows the dashboard to those 20-30 services.

### What data does the Capability Insights dashboard show?

The dashboard shows service and feature availability status, expected launch dates, API action availability per Region, and CloudFormation resource types per Region.

**Tags:** [AWS](https://yomu.fyi/topic/aws), [AWS CloudFormation](https://yomu.fyi/topic/cloudformation), [Regional Availability](https://yomu.fyi/topic/regional-availability), [VPC](https://yomu.fyi/topic/vpc)

- Source: [AWS](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/deploy-open-source-regional-availability-tools-in-your-vpc)
- Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/deploy-open-source-regional-availability-tools-in-your-vpc
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-10-02T18:00:09.400Z

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