Probably sometimes, at least if we trust the article: > In our experience, the documentation is accurate: sometimes volumes pass in and out of their provisione

Probably sometimes, at least if we trust the article: > In our experience, the documentation is accurate: sometimes volumes pass in and out of their provisioned performance in small time windows: What AWS consider "small degradation" is sometimes "100% down" for their users though, look at any previous "AWS is down/having problems" HN comment threads and you'll see there tends to be a huge mismatch between what AWS considers "not working" and what users of AWS considers "not working". Doesn't surprise me people want better tooling than what AWS themselves offer.