Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) were recovering after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others.
Nothing quite like seeing "we need to track the outage for the affected service, but the tool we're using to track things is also out" on Slack at work.
What was extra annoying about was even though the applications I work on are already multi-region; we still had a couple of transitive dependencies on us-east-1 that held things up a bit. And of course, their status page never said anything about the outage.