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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by mrweasel on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:33AM (#29474543)
That’s idiotic, the service is down regardless. If you foster that kind of culture, why have a status page at all?

It make AWS engineers look stupid, because it looks like they are not monitoring their services.

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by mountainofdeath on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:44PM (#29475712)
The status page is as much a political tool as a technical one. Giving your service a non-green state makes your entire management chain responsible. You don't want to be one that upsets some VPs advancement plans.
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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by nine_zeros on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @12:13PM (#29475235)
> It make AWS engineers look stupid, because it looks like they are not monitoring their services.

Management.

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