[idlewords]

@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

[jasoncrawford]

Apparently this is not a joke:

“The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.”

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

[noir_lord]

I think that might be my favourite tweet this year so far.

[mpetrovich]

There are some real gems @Pinboard too: "Green checkmark = no lava in data center. Green checkmark with information icon = data center filling with lava https://status.aws.amazon.com"

[paulddraper]

FYI, in seriousness you can see the fabled red status icon here:

https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif

It does exist, apparently.

[rsynnott]

It showed up during the big DynamoDB outage last year.

[busterarm]

Is the manager of that group still working there post-outage?

[tlrobinson]

I thought this was a joke, but apparently not too far off:

"The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates."

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

[scarlac]

While that may be true, that's not the reason you're seeing green. You should have been seeing a broken image or a status page not finishing loading if that was an issue.

[eknkc]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm

[eherot]

Or so we thought...

https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

[mikecb]

The best jokes always have a grain of truth.

[koolba]

If this is how they're going to handle an outage of their premier AWS service, it's other cloud providers that will be seeing green.

[jacquesm]

Funny, cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.

Perfect storm.

As for other cloud providers seeing green: Or maybe people will come to their senses and will see that monocultures are bad, whether in biology or hosting.

[koolba]

> Funny cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.

I bet they're related. The moment I got an alert of the S3 outage I started refreshing a bunch of status pages at a feverish pitch. Multiply that by a thousands of others doing the same and boom you've got the equivalent of a DDOS.

[leesalminen]

dang [0] just commented to say that their server is getting hammered because of this thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756819

[maxerickson]

I've been getting intermittent Bad Gateways on HN for the last few days.

Ray ID: 33863460edf54231

[general_failure]

That was (obviously) sarcasm :)

[tonyedgecombe]

Humour is wasted on the internet.

[mikecb]

or was it? dun dun