[Racing0461]

Any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

See all those green there? Once it started becoming "monitored" by VPs instead of the software engineers on call, they started to become political. I bet there are several sev2s happening for several of those services even as we speak but it still shows green to the outside observer. If one has access to the actual metrics for those services, i bet we would see a different story than what is shown on the "status" page.

[arzig]

There was something probably here a few days ago to the effect of 'Their 9s are not your 9s'. Like yes, their status is showing an error rate of less than .00001%. However, all of those errors are being generated by your 5 instances that are completely down.