[lostcolony]

So one availability zone went down, not the region, which Amazon indicated on their status page (which is clearly set up to predominantly display outages of the region, not of a single AZ within the region), and because of how your system was set up to be dependent on each AZ being operational and networks to not partition, it caused issues.

I get that having issues on AWS is irritating; I exist in that ecosystem too. But...I really can't fault them for this, or claim that they're lying. AWS says to not rely on any one AZ being up and/or reachable, and yet you did. And the fact it caused problems for you means you want them saying the entire region is down. Why? They make regions be fault tolerant by having multiple AZs; they guarantee reliability at the region level, not at the AZ level, and that's what the status page is intended to track.

Now, I can see wanting a clear status page per AZ, rather than just a blue 'i'. That's a valid request. But -request- that, don't claim that they're lying. You're being antagonistic despite them doing everything they've promised, and their status page being correct (just not using the colors you would like because they view severity differently than you).