As with the old datafiles, we request that you do NOT harcode the datafile URLs, and instead download the file available at https://status.vatsim.net/status.json once when your application starts and then select one of the URLs available randomly each time you make a request.
In addition to the legacy "index" file there now is https://status.vatsim.net/status.json which, as the post on VATSIM forums by Nestor Perez reads, should be used to retrieve the JSON URLs instead: