According to Pingdom, Amazon S3 uptime for 8/9/2009 was 32.84%! Downtime today is already at 12h 44m. That’s pretty disturbing. I ran a google news search and found nothing related to this outage: http://news.google.com/news?q=amazon%20s3%20downtime&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn

Here are some links that were forwarded from my colleague, Len.

Regarding a PayPal outage: http://www.businessinsider.com/outage-costs-paypal-users-at-least-7-million-2009-8

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