[twostorytower]

It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.

[SilasX]

Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?

[Dragonai]

Nah, you're remembering correctly, this happened. The failure icon was hosted on S3, but S3 was down. It was a great moment.

Here's their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

[SilasX]

Thank you for confirming, and the citation!

[aglionby]

Yep, the icons were hosted on S3, which was unavailable

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/

[jgroszko]

Yes, that was the S3 outage last year...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756111

[hknd]

These pages at Google/Amazon/Netflix are updated by the incident response team, so it's a manual task.

[bluetidepro]

Edited my comment to just say the same thing. Haha What's the point of them then?

[michaelmior]

It's certainly helpful to know that Google is aware of the problem and fixing it.

[db48x]

I guess technically the "server" is responding, so...