I've always been reasonably impressed with Amazon, they have done a few things quite well.

Decent online bookstore

Nice ebook reader (Richard Stallman would kill me for saying that, but I like mine)

Proving "Cloud" computing is a disaster waiting to happen or should I say, happened.

Their North Virginia EC2 and relational database services have been down now for getting on 36 hours. Its just not cricket....

Especially when i come to put in my new shiny XBMC media centre and come to scan the movies and find themoviedb.org is down as its hosted by Amazon Web Services - DOH!

Interestingly enough, not to put 2 and 2 together or anything but the PSN (Playstation Network) was down also.... hmmmm

Back to reading on my Kindle for now I think....