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0 pointsrobrtsql4y ago0 comments

One pessimistic argument would be that AWS has no incentive to be honest or timely about acknowledging service outages.

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I'd call that the realistic argument. What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic?

That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status? Or they forgot? Or didn't have the demand to create it?

hutrdvnj4y ago

> What's the optimistic argument if that's pessimistic?

They have some rudimentary automated checks that doesn't cover enough failure scenarios. After some time, given there are enough reports on twitter, they check manually if something is wrong and a human operator writes a status on the status page.

robrtsqlOP4y ago

> That an entity the scale of Amazon and AWS just can't figure out how to report system status?

Yeah, that's literally what they've claimed in the past.. when the 2017 S3 outage happened, the issue wasn't reflected on the status page and they later claimed that they were having trouble updating it because the status page relied upon S3 somehow.

Maybe the 'optimistic' argument is more like the 'naive' argument...

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