On: Google Cloud Is Down

[chupasaurus]

AWS changed internals of Service Health dashboard after they couldn't update it when S3 went down in us-east-1 (https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/)

edit: wording

[ryacko → chupasaurus]

Someone had to design the status page, and failed to anticipate the issue about how the status page depends on the systems it is reporting on.

Unlikely the rest of AWS, a cached web page does not require much complexity.