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Re:Google Calendar Is Down by SilasX on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @10:57AM (#20213779)
Wasn't there that time AWS had some outage, but the red-circle picture (for failure) was itself hosted on the unavailable AWS service, so their status page didn't show it as being unavailable? Or am I mis-remembering something/repeating an urban legend?
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Re:Google Calendar Is Down by Dragonai on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:03AM (#20213849)
Nah, you're remembering correctly, this happened. The failure icon was hosted on S3, but S3 was down. It was a great moment.

Here's their tweet about it: https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656

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Re:Google Calendar Is Down by SilasX on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:06AM (#20213898)
Thank you for confirming, and the citation!
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Re:Google Calendar Is Down by aglionby on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @11:05AM (#20213879)
Yep, the icons were hosted on S3, which was unavailable

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/

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Re:Google Calendar Is Down by jgroszko on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:15PM (#20214713)
Yes, that was the S3 outage last year...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756111

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