Wow so they can't update the S3 status page currently due to S3 issues, including the status page processing to update it, which runs upon S3.
That raises many more questions about how well accounted outages have been in the past and equally reported.
Then the design aspect that in itself highlights if you run things in the cloud, what fallback do you have if that goes wrong. So certainly the impact from this outage is going to echo for a while, with many questions being asked.
Smells BS. As pointed out in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13757284, text should have reflected the real situation. So the icons are either not the only problem or just an excuse.
It seems status pages should be on entirely independent infrastructure, give the criticality of the information they provide. Perhaps even a separate domain.
That raises many more questions about how well accounted outages have been in the past and equally reported. Then the design aspect that in itself highlights if you run things in the cloud, what fallback do you have if that goes wrong. So certainly the impact from this outage is going to echo for a while, with many questions being asked.