Amazon products are never polished or fully fleshed out. You can spend a few minutes on their flagship site and find weird design choices or basic CSS mistakes.

A shame considering the amount of money they have. You'd expect a bit more, but then again Amazon are in the business of scale, quantity over quality.

At least it keeps them from having a monopoly on literally everything.

Uptime of essentially 100%. Hard to criticize when they accomplished something so rare in tech.

Just because something is up doesn’t mean it’s good.

There’s an innuendo in there somewhere...

us-east-1 is part of the suite of chaos engineering tools AWS offers.

The whole point is to use multiple Availability Zones across Regions, to protect your uptime from failures in single AZs or entire Regions. Amazon.com does that.

And yet, even companies like pager duty, who have “one job” and hire many competent engineers, still struggle with this:

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/outage-post-mortem-june-14/

Note that pager duty now weathers Amazon outages beautifully, but the point is that amazon doesn’t have 100% uptime and that properly designing distributed systems is very hard.

Also video quality is auto selected, they don't have an option at all to change the quality!

Why would anyone do that?

This is something Netflix has been doing for a while. I think it's called adaptive bitrate streaming - the video quality automatically adapts to your network connection.

I was fine with netflix because I had a cheap HD only plan.

Prime Video has 4k videos and nobody else can use wifi if I play an Amazon Original and they forcefully opens in 4k and I take up all the bandwidth

A frustrating work around. But a good router like from ubiquiti should have qos options to throttle your streams or a single computer on the network from hogging the bandwidth.