Potentially-ignoramus comment here, apologies in advance, but amazon.com itself appears to be fine right now. Perhaps slower to load pages, by about half a second. Are they not eating (much of) their own dog food?
They are 100% fully on AWS and nothing else. (I’m Ex-Amazon)
It seems like the outage is only effecting one region so AWS is likely falling back to others. I’m sure parts of the site are down but the main sites are resilient
those sentences aren't logically connected - the outage this post is about is mostly confined to `us-east-1`, anyone who wanted to build a reliable system on top of AWS would do so across multiple regions, including Amazon itself.
`us-east-1` is unfortunately special in some ways but not in ways that should affect well-designed serving systems in other regions.
