I love reading these. But I must admit, I feel the pain of everyone using EC² and experiencing this massive outage first hand. Nothing you can do about it, which is probably the most frustrating part. Try explaining that to your clients.
- Working around the EC2 outage (dotcloud.com)
- Coping With Cloud Downtime (backdrift.org)
- AWS is down: Why the sky is falling
To make matters worse, there’s a website that shows the big names that are affected by this outage: http://ec2disabled.com/ . That includes big ones like Reddit, Quora, Kickstarter, Foursquare, …
Just one of the reasons you may want to consider laying some of your eggs into other baskets !