<blockquote>So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in the cloud, you don't get it: it was the cloud's shining moment, exposing the strength of cloud computing.</blockquote>
via <a href="http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/04/the-aws-outage-the-clouds-shining-moment.html">The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment - O'Reilly Broadcast</a>.

I agree with this.