I operate StatusGator, which is a service that aggregates status pages so I'm ALL TOO familiar with the AWS status page.
The main change they made in 2017 was the ability to post a message at the top of the page that is independent of the status of the individual items below. IIRC, it was the items they couldn't update. So that is kind of a hack, but it works.
It would be ideal if it was host entirely on completely separate infrastructure, and even a separate domain, but I won't hold my breath. Theirs is still more reliable than, for example, the IBM Cloud status page which was hard down during their epic outage back in June.
The main change they made in 2017 was the ability to post a message at the top of the page that is independent of the status of the individual items below. IIRC, it was the items they couldn't update. So that is kind of a hack, but it works.
It would be ideal if it was host entirely on completely separate infrastructure, and even a separate domain, but I won't hold my breath. Theirs is still more reliable than, for example, the IBM Cloud status page which was hard down during their epic outage back in June.