It's well known that the AWS status page doesn't reflect the actual uptime. Anytime an massive outage is repored here on HN the AWS status page shows all green.

It's well known that the AWS status page doesn't reflect the actual uptime. Anytime an massive outage is repored here on HN the AWS status page shows all green. Anytime this debate comes up there are two camps of thought -- the AWS camp where "measuring service degradation" is one of the most insanely complex problems that we lesser devs will never understand -- and the other camp is StatusGator a cheap service that seems to be easily able to tell you when one of your services you use is having trouble - including AWS.