Funny, cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.
Perfect storm.
As for other cloud providers seeing green: Or maybe people will come to their senses and will see that monocultures are bad, whether in biology or hosting.
> Funny cloudflare is also having trouble, page only showed on the third request.
I bet they're related. The moment I got an alert of the S3 outage I started refreshing a bunch of status pages at a feverish pitch. Multiply that by a thousands of others doing the same and boom you've got the equivalent of a DDOS.