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Its not the first time. Their status page is not trustworthy. When there was an issue a few weeks ago concerning the HVM? many instances were restarted. Status page showed green as if nothing had happened. They probably change it when its well known.

Its conflicting for a company to show its own status page I suppose. Its in its own interest to get it to be green as much as possible, even if its just for display's sake as a false sense of security.

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Sounds like it's time for one of us to make an AWS status page. I wonder if it'd be possible?

Seconded

At least for EC2 status updates and their color (green i, etc) are only posted if they meet certain thresholds. IE: Greater than $X number of instances are actually offline or unavailable etc.

Possibly many of the outages you happen to be seeing are in reality not that large thus not meeting the threshold to have a post, or major status update.

Don't host it on AWS. :)

This is actually a hard problem because many of these services are localized using BGP anycasting. So the status checking would have to have probe nodes all over the world.

We learned about this particular outage from health checks we had set up in Pingdom. Somebody like them could expose those checks as a public service, and try to become the go-to place for getting the real status of AWS.

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