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Jared ThomasJared Thomas 

Workbench not working, Amazon AWS error

I know that workbench isn't officially supported, but I have been trying to use it for several days, but it isn't working and is giving me this error message:

UNKNOWN ERROR: read error on connection to ec2-34-194-152-137.compute-1.amazonaws.com:6379

There is a thread about this as well: https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/405728/unknown-error-read-error-on-connection-to-ec2-34-194-152-137-compute-1-amazonaw

Would someone please look into this and fix the issue?  If not, is there someone we should contact to get it fixed?  Thanks!

SwethaSwetha (Salesforce Developers) 
HI Jared,
As mentioned in https://workbench.developerforce.com/help.php, Workbench is not a supported product of or supported by salesforce.com, inc .As it is open source, you can use the source code provided (https://github.com/forceworkbench/forceworkbench/tags). Other alternatives are Postman, cURL.

I've also come across sfdcFox's https://foxworkbench.herokuapp.com/login.php that you might want to try

If this information helps, please mark the answer as best. Thank you
Ken Koellner @ EngagewareKen Koellner @ Engageware
Unfortunately, SF has never released a reasonably easy to use query builder.  Dev Console, you need to type off the fields and object names by hand.  It's really a pain that workbench doesn't work.  I've taken to writing the queries in workbench and then copy and pasting them to dev console.
 
Jared ThomasJared Thomas
Yeah, I use workbench daily for queries and it suddenly stopped working about a week ago and now displays the Amazon AWS error.  I hadn't heard an announcement that it was being shutdown.  I can't find the contact information for the people responsible for the Amazon AWS account that workbench runs on, so I'm hoping someone here can find out.
Funda Erdin 15Funda Erdin 15
I am still having the issue.Are you all continuing to have the issue?
Jeff Thompson 2Jeff Thompson 2
I also have this problem. As a workaround, it still works to download a CSV of your query results, it just doesn't display on the screen. Hope that helps. 
Jared ThomasJared Thomas
Thanks Jeff, selecting "Bulk CSV" for the query works for me too. Hopefully the other things will be fixed soon
Keith Roberts 13Keith Roberts 13
The "Bulk CSV" lacks many of the advantages of the "List" queries: no need to download a file and open it, ability to click on record Ids and see all of the fields on a record, ability to click on the record Ids on one of these record views and view the referenced record, copying a List view and dropping it into an editor or Excel sheet. These are my main uses of Workbench. Dev Console queries lack all of this, and DataLoader is far worse. My company does not allow the installation of Salesforce Inspector, nor will they contemplate installing a local copy of Workbench. This is a serious loss of capabilities for me.
Jhomann CarreonJhomann Carreon
Here is a simple SOQL query builder that works :)

https://lwc-soql-builder.github.io

hope this helps
Kathy HiengKathy Hieng
I used that LWC query builder and that worked (with export abilities) ! thanks for the recommendation. 
Jared ThomasJared Thomas
Someone updated workbench today and it is now fixed, so please try again