When they have too much pride in an all-green dash, sure. Allowing any engineer to declare a problem when first detected? Not so hard, but it doesn't make you look good if you have an ultra-twitchy finger. They have the balance badly wrong at the moment though.

A trigger-happy status page gives realtime feedback for anyone doing a DoS attack. Even if you published that information publicly you would probably want it on a significant delay.

They sent their CEO into space, I am sure they have the resources to figure it out.

No they're not.

Step 1: deploy status checks to an external cloud.

I agree, but does come with increased challenges with false positives.

That being said, AWS status pages are up.

More like admitting failure is hard.

“Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Status Pages”

Not if you’re AWS. At this point I’m fairly sure their status page is just a static html that always show all green.

Well, it is.