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@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

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Apparently this is not a joke:

“The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.”

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

I think that might be my favourite tweet this year so far.

There are some real gems @Pinboard too: "Green checkmark = no lava in data center. Green checkmark with information icon = data center filling with lava https://status.aws.amazon.com"

FYI, in seriousness you can see the fabled red status icon here:

https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif

It does exist, apparently.

It showed up during the big DynamoDB outage last year.

Is the manager of that group still working there post-outage?

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not too far off:

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

While that may be true, that's not the reason you're seeing green. You should have been seeing a broken image or a status page not finishing loading if that was an issue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

Or so we thought...

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

The best jokes always have a grain of truth.

If this is how they're going to handle an outage of their premier AWS service, it's other cloud providers that will be seeing green.

Funny, cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.

Perfect storm.

As for other cloud providers seeing green: Or maybe people will come to their senses and will see that monocultures are bad, whether in biology or hosting.

> Funny cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.

I bet they're related. The moment I got an alert of the S3 outage I started refreshing a bunch of status pages at a feverish pitch. Multiply that by a thousands of others doing the same and boom you've got the equivalent of a DDOS.

dang [0] just commented to say that their server is getting hammered because of this thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756819

I've been getting intermittent Bad Gateways on HN for the last few days.

Ray ID: 33863460edf54231

That was (obviously) sarcasm :)

Humour is wasted on the internet.

or was it? dun dun

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