Sorry. I'm probably to blame because I've posted this a couple times on HN before.

It strikes a nerve with me because it caused so much trouble for everyone around him. He had other personal issues, though, so I should probably clarify that I'm not entirely blaming Amazon for his habits. Though his time at Amazon clearly did exacerbate his personal issues.

well, this is the first time I've seen it, so I am glad it was posted this time.

First time I've seen it too. Definitely not my first "AWS us-east-1 is down but the status board is green" thread, either.

Ditto, it's always annoyed me that their status page is useless, but glad someone else mentioned it.

I had that deja vu feeling reading PragmaticPulp's comment, too.

And sure enough, PragmaticPulp did post a similar comment on a thread about Amazon India's alleged hire-to-fire policy 6 months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27570411

You and I, we aren't among the 10000, but there are potentially 10000 others who might be: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I mean it's true at every company I've ever worked at too. If you can lawyer incidents into not being an outage you avoid like 15 meetings with the business stakeholders about all the things we "have to do" to prevent things like this in the future that get canceled the moment they realize that how much dev/infra time it will take to implement.

It's the "grandma got run over by a reindeer" of AWS outages. Really no outage thread would be complete without this anecdote.