[swearfu]

Saw that too, sounds like a convenient excuse for being caught in a lie.

AWS Employee #1: Hey, people are catching on that our status page isn't accurate

AWS Employee #2: Tell them it's cause of S3

[joshmanders]

I'd suspect the humiliation of hosting your own status page on the infrastructure it's monitoring would far outweigh the "lie".

[swearfu]

People are much more forgiving of mistakes than they are of deception.