Vigilare exists because AWS account suspension is fast, opaque, and devastating — and because every warning sign was visible in advance, if only someone had been watching.
AWS can suspend an account in minutes — and when it does, every service goes dark simultaneously. No console access, no API calls, no way to export data or migrate workloads. For businesses running production infrastructure on AWS, suspension isn't just an inconvenience: it's an existential event.
What makes it frustrating is that AWS almost always leaves clues before pulling the trigger. A billing anomaly that's been growing for days. An IAM policy violation flagged in the Account Health Dashboard. A GuardDuty finding that nobody noticed. An SES sending reputation that quietly dropped below the threshold.
Vigilare watches for those clues continuously — every fifteen minutes by default, every minute on higher tiers — and alerts you with enough lead time to act before AWS does.
“No team should lose access to their AWS account because they weren't watching the right dashboard at the right moment.”
We want AWS account suspension to become as rare and preventable as a server running out of disk space — a solved problem, not a catastrophe waiting to happen. Vigilare is the monitoring layer that makes that possible.
Origin
A billing anomaly in a side-project account went unnoticed for nine days. AWS suspended the account. Three days of production downtime and a painful support thread later, Vigilare was conceived.
First version
A scrappy internal tool monitored a handful of accounts. It caught two real suspension-risk events in its first month — one from an IAM credential leak, one from an SES reputation drop.
Public launch
Vigilare launched to early access, expanding monitoring to seven AWS service categories and adding multi-account support. Hundreds of teams signed up in the first month.
Today
Vigilare protects AWS accounts across six continents, scanning every fifteen minutes or faster depending on plan tier — and we're just getting started.
AWS suspension notices arrive with little warning and act fast. We measure success by how many suspension events our customers never experience — not by how many alerts we send.
We never ask for write permissions. Vigilare observes your account through a minimal read-only IAM role. You stay in control; we stay in our lane.
Our Terraform onboarding module is open source. Every permission we request is documented and justified. No black-box agents, no hidden data collection.
We build for the engineers on call at 2 AM — not for compliance checkbox exercises. Signal-to-noise ratio is a core product requirement, not a nice-to-have.
Whether you're evaluating Vigilare, want to share feedback, or just want to talk AWS monitoring strategy — we read and respond to every message.