[Karunamon]

>How do you reduce the status of millions of machines, the software they run, and the interconnected-ness of those systems to a single graphical indicator?

A good low-hanging fruit would be, when the outage is significant enough to have reached the media, you turn the dot red.

Dishonesty is what we're talking about here. Not the gradient when you change colors. This is hardly the first major outage where the AWS status board was a bald-faced lie. This deserves calling out and shaming the responsible parties, nothing less, certainly not defense of blatantly deceptive practices that most companies not named Amazon don't dip into.

[efitz]

Human-in-the-loop != lying.

Broken dashboard != lying.

The specific charge of “lying” is what I dispute.