[socmoth]

amazon did go down once. smugmug has a blog post about it and what they did. go google it. the entire blog is amazing and informative and i highly recommend it.

i'd link you, but i'm lazy

[songism]

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/02/15/s3-outage-we-werent-...

or maybe this: http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2007/01/30/amazon-s3-outages-sl...