Agreed. It has actually given a very nice excuse to developers like me. Whenever your manager comes up to find why something that you are working on is not up,

Agreed. It has actually given a very nice excuse to developers like me. Whenever your manager comes up to find why something that you are working on is not up, you can simply reply with something like this - If AWS with some of the smartest engineers can be down for that long do you think that our crappy service will be up 100% of time?