[jrochkind1]

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?