On: AWS us-east-1 outage

[mrweasel]

That’s idiotic, the service is down regardless. If you foster that kind of culture, why have a status page at all?

It make AWS engineers look stupid, because it looks like they are not monitoring their services.

[mountainofdeath → mrweasel]

The status page is as much a political tool as a technical one. Giving your service a non-green state makes your entire management chain responsible. You don't want to be one that upsets some VPs advancement plans.

[nine_zeros → mrweasel]

> It make AWS engineers look stupid, because it looks like they are not monitoring their services.

Management.