Just because it has a lag from “issues reported” to “confirmed outage” doesn’t mean it’s useless. Non-green means there are issues and Amazon is aware of them.
My comment was in the context of the assertion that a team that knows the service is down and is fixing it is too busy to update the status, therefore no one else can update this status. Certainly it is understandable that if the issue is unknown that status cannot be updated.
