[paulddraper]

The most recent issue that affected me was when all EC2 instances in VPCs couldn't connect to S3. At all.

It wasn't indicated on the status page until after it was fixed. And it was indicated as a green check in a sea of green checks. With a small "i" in the corner to represent the outage.

I love AWS. It's not without fault but overall I think it's been well architected, well documented, and well implemented.

But the status page has got to be the ultimate example of what not to do.

[jrochkind1]

Huh, I wonder if the status page is in fact based on any automated monitoring at all, or just manual updates? I guess probably automated monitoring, just not very good automated monitoring.

[bm1362]

IIRC, it's manual and way up the chain.

[jrochkind1]

That is pretty ridiculous.

[madeofpalk]

Considering how slow it is, my guess would be that it's manual.