Amazon must be so happy that this happened. It started right at the end of the AWS partial downtime, and has completely recontextualized how badly a service provider can screw things up.
Wonder what they have been doing, for a service of this size, seems to be one of the slowest responses I have ever seen. If a startup had similar downtime they would probably find themselves out of business. Luck Sony has network effects and the large outlay people have made on the console and games I guess.
I realize this isn't an "adds a lot of value comment," but...<p>If you can't figure out how to make comments work properly on a blog, do you really think you're ready to roll out nationwide service for PSN again?