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by CrazyCatDog 1661 days ago
Suggesting that when the status page sends a status request and hears no response—it defaults to green—hear no evil and see no evil —> report no evil

Either way—overt lies or engineering incompetence—it’s disappointing!

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Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.
Or the service that updates the status page runs out of us-east-1.
It has customer relationship implications. I guarantee you it is updated by a support agent.