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Why even have a status page? Someone reported that their org of >100,000 users can't use Google Meet. If corps aren't going to update their status page, might as well just not have one. https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ https://status.cloud.google.com/index.html Edit: The GCP status page got updated <1 minute after I posted this, showing affected services are Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud She…
There's no situation where the corporation controls the status page where you can trust the status page to have accurate information. None. The incentives will never be aligned in this regard. It's just too tempting and easy for the corp to control the narrative when they maintain their own status page. The only accurate status pages are provided by third party service checkers.
Well, yes, incentives, do big customers with wads of cash have an incentive to demand accurate reporting from their suppliers so they can react better rather than trying to identify issues? If there's systematic underreporting, then apparently not. Though in this case they did update their page.