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@mikecb on Twitter explained it well. "The red icon is stored in S3 US East."

• mpetrovich 10y ago
  There are some real gems @Pinboard too: "Green checkmark = no lava in data center. Green checkmark with information icon = data center filling with lava https://status.aws.amazon.com" https://status.aws.amazon.com"
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• scarlac 10y ago
  While that may be true, that's not the reason you're seeing green. You should have been seeing a broken image or a status page not finishing loading if that was an issue.
  • eknkc 10y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
    • eherot 10y ago
      Or so we thought... https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656 https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
      • mikecb 10y ago
        The best jokes always have a grain of truth.
  • general_failure 10y ago
    That was (obviously) sarcasm :)
    • tonyedgecombe 10y ago
      Humour is wasted on the internet.
    • mikecb 10y ago
      or was it? dun dun
  • koolba 10y ago
    If this is how they're going to handle an outage of their premier AWS service, it's other cloud providers that will be seeing green.
    • jacquesm 10y ago
      Funny, cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request. Perfect storm. As for other cloud providers seeing green: Or maybe people will come to their senses and will see that monocultures are bad, whether in biology or hosting.
      • koolba 10y ago
        > Funny cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request. I bet they're related. The moment I got an alert of the S3 outage I started refreshing a bunch of status pages at a feverish pitch. Multiply that by a thousands of others doing the same and boom you've got the equivalent of a DDOS.
        • leesalminen 10y ago
          dang [0] just commented to say that their server is getting hammered because of this thread. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756819
      • maxerickson 10y ago
        I've been getting intermittent Bad Gateways on HN for the last few days. Ray ID: 33863460edf54231
• paulddraper 10y ago
  FYI, in seriousness you can see the fabled red status icon here: https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif https://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status3.gif It does exist, apparently.
  • rsynnott 10y ago
    It showed up during the big DynamoDB outage last year.
    • busterarm 10y ago
      Is the manager of that group still working there post-outage?
• jasoncrawford 10y ago
  Apparently this is not a joke: “The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.” https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656 https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
  • noir_lord 10y ago
    I think that might be my favourite tweet this year so far.
• tlrobinson 10y ago
  I thought this was a joke, but apparently not too far off: "The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates." https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656 https://twitter.com/awscloud/status/836656664635846656
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