Some users may have experienced slightly elevated error rates.

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> Some

Or, typically, "A small portion ..."

You might also have noticed that they almost always mention percentages ("less than 3% of users") instead of real numbers ("one million users") to make these incidents seem MUCH less significant.

100% is indeed an elevated rate compared to 0%.

I love AWS, but they've been struggling lately (probably understandable with increased unexpected load this year?). Not going into details to keep on topic, but every time it's green status. Rarely any acknowledgement of problems or degradation

I doubt it’s related to this year. They’ve been famous for having a status dashboard that straight up lies for years.

Hey, how'd you know exactly who I was thinking about?!

that's why somebody created https://stop.lying.cloud/