[bad_user]

I can confirm this. I remember once when half of the Internet was down and the status reported for EC2 was yellow - experiencing some minor issues :-)

And I find out about it by yelling at Heroku - they told me that Amazon is having issues before Amazon's status turned yellow.

[kalleboo]

Usually when AWS has an outage they have a nice green circle but with a small blue "i" next to it that you need a loupe to see. Extremely dishonest.