Half the startup world is offline right now, yet the AWS status page is all greens with one "info" notice about EBS (which I doubt is the issue here). I'm glad to have moved off a fully AWS stack back to my own servers over a year ago. My uptime, bills, and stress level are all much improved.
That's hardly surprising. The groupthink on cloud services is that they magically make everything scalable, cheap and easy. Making redundant software is hard work.
