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.
>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
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.
Being able to automatically detect system health is a non-trivial effort.