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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by swearfu on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:34PM (#13757026)
Saw that too, sounds like a convenient excuse for being caught in a lie.

AWS Employee #1: Hey, people are catching on that our status page isn't accurate

AWS Employee #2: Tell them it's cause of S3

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by joshmanders on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:14PM (#13757425)
I'd suspect the humiliation of hosting your own status page on the infrastructure it's monitoring would far outweigh the "lie".
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by swearfu on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:18AM (#13763760)
People are much more forgiving of mistakes than they are of deception.