CloudWatch, Amazon Web Services’ application monitoring tool, can now generate incident reports for customers – an ironic release just days after the hyperscaler inadvertently took down a good portion of the internet.

Following the major outage this week, AWS touted CloudWatch’s new capabilities as a way for customers to conduct investigations into their apps and resources in minutes.

The service automatically captures data like operational telemetry and service configurations to create summaries of incidents, as well as an event timeline and impact assessments. It then generates a series of recommendations for users to employ and remedy in the event of an impact on service.

AWS said CloudWatch’s new interactive incident reporting mechanism helps operators “better identify patterns, implement preventive measures, and continuously improve your operational posture through structured post-incident analysis.”

The service comes with a heavy whiff of irony, considering among the early regions the new CloudWatch offering is available in is none other than U.S. East in Virginia – the very same region behind the mammoth outage earlier this week.

DynamoDB issues resulted in a sizable portion of the web going down. Sites went offline, Ring doorbells stopped working, and some gamers were unable to access online services. And most disturbingly of all, smart bed users found their internet-enabled mattress locked in an upright incline throughout the downtime, while also unable to turn off the built-in heater.

Services were ultimately restored some 15 hours later. To borrow the hyperscaler’s own words, users will potentially be able to use the new CloudWatch service to “implement preventive measures” in the event such an incident occurs in the future.