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Re:GCE down in all regions by morgante on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @05:42AM (#11478235)
Which is exactly why I won't use GCE. If Google isn't confident enough to use it for themselves, neither will I.

The fact that Amazon dogfoods AWS is a major advantage for them.

Re:GCE down in all regions by brown9-2 on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:16AM (#11478841)
Even if Amazon.com uses AWS (the extent of which seems it may be a mixture of marketing hype and urban legend), there are many ways AWS could fail that affects customers but leaves Amazon.com unaffected.