> NO, YOU DID NOT GET SCAMMED BY AMAZON BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SERVICE OUTAGE. Many people have pushed for cloud services because they are supposed to be more rel

> NO, YOU DID NOT GET SCAMMED BY AMAZON BECAUSE THEY HAVE A SERVICE OUTAGE. Many people have pushed for cloud services because they are supposed to be more reliable than setting up a system in a rack in a datacenter. AWS will constantly point to their uptime guarantee, except it isn't a guarantee. It's just a sales tactic that misrepresents the historical uptime of AWS. The larger point is that if 99.5% is the real expected uptime, it's vastly cheaper to have a solution that is not AWS, even before you factor in the cost savings of learning their security model and completely opaque billing system. Advertising a product with features it does not have is the classic definition of a scam.