Counterpoint: We've been happily using AWS for several years now. We haven't had one second of downtime. We host across multiple availability zones, and have be

Counterpoint: We've been happily using AWS for several years now. We haven't had one second of downtime. We host across multiple availability zones, and have been pretty insulated. We are hosted in the eastern region (which was the one having issues yesterday), but managed to get through everything ok. We did lose some instances in one AZ, but failed back to our other instances without any incident. ANY provider is going to have issues, the AWS actually gives you a bunch of nice options to easily handle those. I'm not saying that everyone should use Amazon, but don't take Reddits issues (I'm not familiar enough with their architecture to know where the fault really lies) to be the only data point for AWS reliability.