My Echos kept saying they couldn't connect this morning which is exceedingly rare for me. The only other times have been when the ISP had a local outage. I can't recall any other issues either from my home setup or from Amazon.
Not now, I have a headache...
FWIW, Apple uses AWS for iCloud, etc. -- But the only issue they show is Maps Traffic:
I'm not a fan of Apple's system status page. It's really only good for seeing what's going on at that very moment as there's no option to look at a timeline. I think they used to offer one with this page, but I think that was years ago.
Apple has never let you look back further than 3 days AFAIK. I might assume, for lack of any other reason I can think of, to mask failure/uptime rates (for cloud reliability comparisons?). Some other services let you go back to look at service histories weeks if not months.
EDIT: Apple doesn't show you even three days now? If so I couldn't see it.
What would be the point of Apple showing past down times? It’s not like you need to know that for anything except your own idle amusement. So why put the effort into maintaining a useless service?
You run a small business with just a few salespeople, or maybe you're even a sole proprietorship, and considering committing your data to a cloud service for both convenience and better access to it. Wouldn't gauging the reliability of that service be an important consideration? As a businessman you have to be able to trust that your data is going to be available whenever you need it. Foggy's suggestion that's it's a cakewalk for some owner of a small company to just run a Perl script for a few weeks to figure it out is downright silly IMHO, particularly when it's all right there at Apple's fingertips to provide at zero cost or effort. All Apple has to do is "run a script".
...or you've personally been experiencing issues recently with accessing your Apple mail, or your photos or whatever and not sure if it's your phone or your local service or Apple. Looking back at 6 weeks of Apple iCloud status would sure help you figure it out, and it would cost Apple nothing to do so. That they don't should at least prompt some question about why not.
So the benefit of Apple being transparent about it is the same reason Amazon, and IBM, and Rackspace, and Google, and Dropbox, and Approyo, and Microsoft, and Cloudify and just about every single significant cloud services provider outside of Apple offers reliability statistics on a page you, or I, or "small company secretary" can look at for themselves.
That you're having difficulty understanding "what the point" would be is more a testament to an incomplete thought process on your part than it being a useless asset.
To be a fan doesn't require also being an apologist. Even me who's often accused of being "that Google Guy" will still admit right here at AI when Google does bad. Things like "we didn't know" wifi data snippet sniffing, bad opt-out tracking advice to Safari users then trying to blame it all on a "mistake", playing aggressive hide-and seek games with taxes, and a few other less than shining moments from the past few years.
I find it very interesting to note how Gatorguy has adroitly steered the conversation away from Amazon's troubles into berating Apple for not maintaining a detailed status page of their cloud services, complete with insinuations about lack of transparency and other possibly sinister motives. Notice how this discussion has now totally shifted away from discussing today's Alexa failures? Very clever...
I find it very interesting to note how Gatorguy has adroitly steered the conversation away from Amazon's troubles into berating Apple for not maintaining a detailed status page of their cloud services...
And my apologies for that too because that was not my intent. Someone else raised the issue of Apple' iCloud and their status. I made a comment that Apple used to keep about three days of logs that were viewable, and after that it took on a life of its own. Yes it became a distraction. My sincere apologies.
I have no investment in Amazon myself and don't use any of their branded products including Echoes. I don't have any dog in the fight
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...or you've personally been experiencing issues recently with accessing your Apple mail, or your photos or whatever and not sure if it's your phone or your local service or Apple. Looking back at 6 weeks of Apple iCloud status would sure help you figure it out, and it would cost Apple nothing to do so. That they don't should at least prompt some question about why not.
So the benefit of Apple being transparent about it is the same reason Amazon, and IBM, and Rackspace, and Google, and Dropbox, and Approyo, and Microsoft, and Cloudify and just about every single significant cloud services provider outside of Apple offers reliability statistics on a page you, or I, or "small company secretary" can look at for themselves. That you're having difficulty understanding "what the point" would be is more a testament to an incomplete thought process on your part than it being a useless asset.
To be a fan doesn't require also being an apologist. Even me who's often accused of being "that Google Guy" will still admit right here at AI when Google does bad. Things like "we didn't know" wifi data snippet sniffing, bad opt-out tracking advice to Safari users then trying to blame it all on a "mistake", playing aggressive hide-and seek games with taxes, and a few other less than shining moments from the past few years.
I have no investment in Amazon myself and don't use any of their branded products including Echoes. I don't have any dog in the fight