That’s not what’s being asked though - in all 3 events, they couldn’t manually update it. It’s clearly not a priority to fix it for even manual alerts.

They had all day to do it manually.

>Be capable of spinning up virtualized instances (including custom drive configurations, network stacks, complex routing schemes, even GPUs) with a simple API call

But,

>Be incapable of querying the status of such things

Yeah, I don't believe it.

As others mention, you can do it manually. But it’s also not that hard to do automatically: literally just spin up a “client” of your service and make sure it works.

Why automatic? Surely someone could have the responsibility to do it manually.