<story><title>AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharyvoase</author><text>By what stretch of the imagination is this icon suitable for representing a total loss of availability due to a power outage?: &lt;a href=&quot;http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this not a &apos;service disruption&apos; situation? At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with &apos;performance issues&apos;.&lt;p&gt;If there&apos;s one thing that&apos;s shocked me about AWS, it&apos;s the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions. Like the above case, or the fact that a 3-hour loss of connectivity is displayed on the service history as a green tick with a small &apos;i&apos; box: &lt;a href=&quot;http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flyt</author><text>Or that there is absolutely no way to deep link to an ongoing outage, and users must reload, then expand the link every single time, or subscribe to an RSS feed.&lt;p&gt;AWS needs to blantantly copy Heroku&apos;s status system, which is worlds better for people needing fast updates on their infrastructure.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://status.heroku.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://status.heroku.com/&lt;/a&gt; vs &lt;a href=&quot;http://status.aws.amazon.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://status.aws.amazon.com/&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US</title><url>http://status.aws.amazon.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zacharyvoase</author><text>By what stretch of the imagination is this icon suitable for representing a total loss of availability due to a power outage?: &lt;a href=&quot;http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status2.gif&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this not a &apos;service disruption&apos; situation? At the bottom of the page, the yellow icon is associated with &apos;performance issues&apos;.&lt;p&gt;If there&apos;s one thing that&apos;s shocked me about AWS, it&apos;s the total failure to acknowledge the severity of service disruptions. Like the above case, or the fact that a 3-hour loss of connectivity is displayed on the service history as a green tick with a small &apos;i&apos; box: &lt;a href=&quot;http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://oi46.tinypic.com/x5qtch.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hristov</author><text>It is obvious we are dealing with the imagination of a marketing exec here. And that is a sick cynical place.</text></comment>