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		latch on Nov 25, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards... Status pages, like SLAs, are sales tool - not engineering tools. At best, they are there to help decision makers go through their checklist. At worse, they exist to deceive.

jmartens on Nov 27, 2020 [–]

1 million percent!

Which makes me wonder, why do we all rely on status pages rather than solve the problem ourselves in ways that don't require us to rely on the vendor?

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