These are the not that well designed scenarios, when the status pages are hosted on the very same infrastructure that suffers an outage. This is a common pattern across cloud providers I have seen happen.

You're kidding, right? Sending feedback to Google? I mean isn't that a bit like talking to a tortoise?

No, they're all circles but in different colors.

EDIT: you might be looking at the Google Cloud status, not the Google services status in the first post.

You might be talking about the page in the first reply? Not in the post that someone was responding to?

I see all mid-toned circles with no icons (Chrome, Australia).

Heck, I'm not colorblind and I had trouble seeing the difference between "service disruption" and "service outage" at first in the legend at the bottom of the page.

It wasn't until I zoomed in on them that I could see that one was orange and the other red. Once I saw them zoomed, I could then identify which was which at normal size on the status part of the page.

BTW, the orange circle is actually a span whose class is "aad-yellow-circle", and whose CSS loads the colored circle from the file yellow_circle.png.

This suggests that at one time they intended it to be a yellow circle, not an orange circle [1]. I wonder why they switched from yellow to orange?

[1] Actually, RGB to name sites suggest that it is neon carrot.

If the user had e.g. red/green colorblindness, that wouldn't help. Google's made a nice tradeoff for this application, though, and used differently-shaped icons (checkmark vs. exclamation point) as well.

Edit: looks like the icons are served as images. Google should probably consider making them text icons instead to mitigate loading problems.

FYI, Toptal makes a helpful tool for quickly checking live pages with colorblindness filters: https://www.toptal.com/designers/colorfilter/