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		nomel on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Google Search down? > At AWS, if the status changes then someone somewhere gets fired, so a lot of time incidents happen without being recorded on the status board. This can't be true, can it? What's the reason to lie, when the lie would be so incredibly obvious?

washbrain on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

It's not true. The real answer is that execs don't want to pay the costs of slo violations. If the checkmark status green, who could say whether the service was down?

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