On: Amazon's homepage was down

[dm8]

It's up now! But it's strange that they were down. And don't they run on AWS themselves?

[ultimoo → dm8]

I remember being in a talk by Dr. Vogels last year and he mentioning that *most of the Amazon.com North America services moved over to AWS in September 2011, many other services outside of NA were yet to move.

[ceejayoz → dm8]

Running on AWS doesn't protect you from problems in the applications you're running on AWS. You can `rm -rf /` an EC2 instance and have plenty of problems.

[alexakarpov → dm8]

not 100%, but more and more teams are moving over; it's a goal that's pursued aggressively, but not reached yet.