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AWS sure does put out amazing post mortems. If only they'd make their status page more useful ...

• taligent 14y ago
  How is the status page not useful ? It's so simple to understand. Green if everything is fine. Green if there are intermittent problems. Green if nothing works.
  • signifiers 14y ago
    Too true. Today when Google's App Engine failed hard, they flat out said: "App Engine is currently experiencing serving issues – Python, Java, Go … Oct 26 2012, 07:30 AM-11:59 PM … Current Availability: 55.90%" and showed read/write I/O metrics were spiking through the roof. Their dashboard clearly labeled the relevant icon as the most severe "Service Interruption". I admire that level of transparency.
    • kordless 14y ago
      Yeah, was thinking the same thing while looking at all the cool graphs.
  • tonybaroneee 14y ago
    Lol, thanks for a good laugh.
  • bigiain 14y ago
    You left out "Green if everything is working - except the Chaos Monkey. All systems are working properly, but none of them failing randomly 'for your convenience'"
  • seldo 14y ago
    And if things are really broken, green with a little "i" icon next to it.
  • davnola 14y ago
    Haha. I'd love someone to release a greasemonkey/userscript for that status page to make degraded service more obvious.