When some AWS AZs went down last year, Netflix made a big deal of their distributed architecture and how that made them immune to failures of an entire AWS region. That now looks more like blind luck.

Not true, link where they state they're immune to failures.

Plainly they're not immune to _all_ failures; I think you've made a parsing error there.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-... http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/cloud/2012/03/18/netflix-how-we-... http://perfcap.blogspot.com/2012/01/thoughts-on-simpledb-dyn...

There's also all the "soft" statements they made; I'll let you search for them yourself.

"Contrary to what you might have heard on Hacker News, Netflix is not down. They're beta testing Elastic Spot Uptime. Give it a try!" https://twitter.com/AmazonStatus/status/218920276207996929

Love this Twitter account - hope it lasts!

http://movies.netflix.com/ or http://dvd.netflix.com/

A question... what's the difference between free aws support for standard accounts and the highest paid level of support for aws?

Free aws support is evasive and opaque on http://status.aws.amazon.com/

When you pay for support you get evasion and opacity on the phone and in person.

Netflix runs on AWS which is down on the east coast - http://status.aws.amazon.com/. These two things are related.

Confirmed at 9:00pm PST: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/Netflix.com

For me, it's down all the time due to my geographical location.

Down in Roku too

I can confirm this.