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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by traskjd on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:29PM (#13756290)
Reminds me of an old joke: Why do we host on AWS? Because if it goes down then our customers are so busy worried about themselves being down that they don't even notice that we're down!
Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by nabla9 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:40PM (#13757089)
Reminds me of an even older joke (from 80's or 90's):

Q: Why computers don't crash at the same time?

A: Because network connections are not fast enough.

(I think we are starting to get there)

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by contingencies on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:37PM (#13759799)
These are both pretty good. Added to color fortune clone https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup