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You would think that but there always a few contrarian AWS evangelists in the comments going on about the "difficulty" in operating a status page as though it were trying to conjure a N=NP proof.

Like how come down detector can do a superb job of detecting when AWS goes down and AWS can't? Because AWS doesn't want account managers of SLAs asking for credits for the uptime they're paying for but not getting.

https://downdetector.co.uk/status/aws-amazon-web-services/



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