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by lamontcg 1601 days ago
When I started work at Amazon in 2001 we had a "gonefishing" page for outages that a human had to flip the site to manually.

We actually stopped doing this a year or two later because reporters were setting up monitoring on that page showing up and were reporting on outage statistics based on it. So we just left the site up in whatever degraded state it was in and that made the problem of measuring www.amazon.com uptime externally that little bit more difficult.