It's not really dishonest though because there is nuance. Most everything in EC2 is still working it seems, just the console is down. So is it really down? It should probably be yellow but not red.
if you cannot access the control plane to create or destroy resources, it is down (partial availability). The jobs that are running are basically zombies.
I'm right in the middle of an AWS-run training and we literally can't run the exercises because of this.
let me repeat that: my AWS trainign that is run by AWS that I pay AWS for isn't working, because AWS is having control plane (or other) issues. This is several hours after the initial incident. We're doing training in us-west-2, but the identity service and other components run in us-east-1.
I’m running EKS in us-west-2. My pods use a role ARN and identity token file to get temporary credentials via STS. STS can’t return credentials right now. So my EKS cluster is “down” in the sense that I can’t bring up new pods. I only noticed because an auto-scaling event failed.
The API is NOT working -- it may not have been listed on the service health dashboard when you posted that, but it is now. We haven't been able to launch an instance at all, and we are continuously trying. We can't even start existing instances.
Heroku is currently having major problems. My stuff is still up, but I can't deploy any new versions. Heroku runs their stuff on AWS. I have heard reports of other companies who run on AWS also having degarded service and outages.
i'd say when other companies who run their infrastruture on AWS are going out, it's hard to argue it's not a real outage.
But AWS status _has_ changed to yellow at this point. Probably heroku could be completely down because of an AWS problem, and AWS status would still not show red. But at least yellow tells us there's a problem, the distinction between yellow and red probably only matters at this point to lawyers arguing about the AWS SLA, the rest of us know yellow means "problems", red will never be seen, and green means "maybe problems anyway".
I believe the entire us-east-1 could be entirely missing, and they'd still only put a yellow not a red on status page. After all, the other regions are all fine, right?