It's bad UI design at best, and deceiving at worst.
Also, even with a clear, honest red icon it's still heavily tilted towards showing greens, since only the current day is visible.
I think something like this is more honest: https://basecamp.com/uptime
(obviously would need tailoring since AWS run multiple services)
Not one successful request. Mostly no response, some 405 "Method not allowed".
http://status.aws.amazon.com/
$ curl -i amazon.de curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
It's bad UI design at best, and deceiving at worst.
Also, even with a clear, honest red icon it's still heavily tilted towards showing greens, since only the current day is visible.
I think something like this is more honest: https://basecamp.com/uptime
(obviously would need tailoring since AWS run multiple services)