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Re:AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US by batista on Saturday June 30, 2012 @03:16AM (#4180987)
I had used it before the HR, so it might have improved.

At the time It was like voodoo, and you had to triple-check your datastore actions, because they could fail for no reason at the backend.

Re:AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US by kroo on Saturday June 30, 2012 @10:33AM (#4181697)
App Engine's reliability massively improved with the HR datastore, and has gotten even better since the pricing change / SLA guarantee. It's actually remarkably good now, I recommend taking another look.