StatusGator is neat, thanks for linking that. Do you have graphs anywhere to track the number of outages/problems over time? It would be nice to see if there's been an uptick in problems generally, across certain services, etc.

You would think Amazon would have sufficient backup power to make that a non-issue, as would any significant third party data centers involved in routing data. However, a downed data line might make sense as a root cause.

Amazon's description of S3: "Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical facilities that are geographically separated within an AWS Region".

What are people doing wrong with how they use S3? Until AWS provides a cross-region S3 that is master-master or self-healing, the suggestion that people are using AWS improperly seems incorrect.