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Keep in mind AWS status dashboard solely reflects the product owning managers discretion.

And the number of yellow ("green I" if you're old enough) is definitely a material input to PIP :)

Correct. No matter how down AWS is, their status page will only show a disruption if a manager approves showing a disruption. There is nothing automated to display the status, so the status page is mostly worthless except for whatever AWS admits is down.

All this compounded by the fact AWS builds on AWS. So there can be a disruption of a service, but it's not really the service's fault -- it's a upstream failure.

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