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Re:Amazon Web Services are down by G_Morgan on Thursday April 21, 2011 @08:02AM (#2470299)
It isn't about relying on the cloud. It is more about incompetent cloud providers.
Re:Amazon Web Services are down by astrodust on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:01AM (#2470846)
Does seem harsh to brand Amazon as incompetent. Things like this probably happen to Google's server farm all the time, but since they're the only customer they can and do reconfigure everything massively to adapt.

Amazon can't do that to your application that runs on a handful of systems.

Re:Amazon Web Services are down by oceanician on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:32AM (#2470527)
all is fine on that service page now.