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Don't worry. If skynet is in EC2, we'll be fine.

You don't understand, Skynet is using all Amazon resources, hence the outages ;-)

Amazon have stated many times that amazon.com itself runs mostly on AWS platform, but it works fine now ...

AWS platform on a private cloud, it is not the same as AWS platform for us commoners.

I wonder if it's a virus or worm whose activation date was today due to the fact above, found its way into the amazon servers.

Probably just a coincidence.

Do we all regret letting GLaDOS reboot yet?

Sigh, Portal jokes were so much more popular on Reddit. :)

HN really isn't the place for internet memes, jokes about pop culture, and things that are judged trivial / frivolous. Part of what makes the HN community what it is, is a focus on high-quality, reasoned, rational discourse. IOW: HN != Reddit