You joke, but static pages are actually great for status pages, since they handle load surges very well and have few moving parts to break. That said, it looks

You joke, but static pages are actually great for status pages, since they handle load surges very well and have few moving parts to break. That said, it looks like the Amazon status page pulls http://status.aws.amazon.com/data.json http://status.aws.amazon.com/data.json , and I've also noticed that it's almost always all green even when stuff is broken.