[revorad]

PR damage control?

[protomyth]

Interestingly, the number of sites affected might have been a revelation to Wall Street on the importance of Amazon cloud services.

[matthavener]

I think so, but not for the reddit/EBS outage.

[mfringel]

Exactly. This is all about their earnings. Given a general trend towards decreasing or outsourcing R&D, Amazon is still doing it in-house, because it's their competitive advantage. Explaining that to a bunch of panicky stockholders who just saw a Big Ugly show up on the cashflow statement is mandatory, no matter how much they care about the long-term.

[icey]

I feel like I'm missing something. As of this moment (9:42AM PDT) Amazon's stock is up 5.6% for the day and near a 52 week high. That doesn't seem like panicky shareholders to me.

I'm not a stock maven, so it's possible that I'm missing some important detail.

[groovylick]

AZMN stock climbed over 8% during the AWS outage, the market is disconnected from reality.

[brown9-2]

the market is disconnected from reality

Or perhaps, the impact of any EBS/AWS outage has very little impact on the overall health and success of the entire Amazon business.

[jmatthews]

Just reading his run up regarding their distributed server technology it read to me like a brief ad for AppEngine.

I'm thinking about all of the hardcore neuron work that went in to their infrastructure and how I'm getting a competing product for a song.

[neuroelectronic]

for liberal definitions of "competing" The only similar cloud services are from Microsoft and Google and they are about the same price, definitely not "a song" territory.