Is Amazon REALLY responsible for Instagram, Netflicks and other outages?

Let's review the recent 30 June Amazon Cloud failure: Amazon never said their EC2 is bullet proof of local regional outages - checkout their EC2 highlights here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#highlights It says "The Amazon EC2 Service Level Agreement commitment is 99.95% availability for each Amazon EC2 Region". Nothing here mentions cross region high availability. The Amazon S3 […]