Starting at roughly 11 AM Central Daylight Time, Amazon's S3 service went down and has been down ever since, even at the time of this writing. This 6+ hour outage is the latest in a string of outages that have plagued Amazon's Web Services since their initial offering.

The outage has affected Blingee, which we provide services for, in addition to other popular online services like Twitter, Second Life, Basecamp, and more.

This outage has seriously weakened our confidence in Amazon's Web Services. A provider of this size should not have these kinds of outages. I will be eagerly awaiting a detailed explanation. Our customers spend quite a bit of money with Amazon, and if I'm going to recommend something, I want it to be a good service. Unfortunately, right now, I can't say that Amazon's Web Services are.