There is zero excuse for this shit. Be professional. Acknowledge reality. It is logically impossible to run your own status page. Trying to do so just wastes everyone else on the internet's time when you have an outage.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I passed my system architect interview!
This morning we saw some weird behavior in us-west-2, our traffic just _vanished_. I thought: there is no way this is us.
Went to https://status.aws.amazon.com/
Top of the board showed “Internet Connectivity Issues (Oregon)”
And that was that. The board worked exactly as it should - it immediately explained my missing traffic and kept me up-to-date with the status of the outage on their side.
See discussions from the last outage about the VP signoff needed to admit, I mean announce, an outage.