Indeed they could, however one could equally make the case that working on (say)...

		defrost on April 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon’s problem isn’t the outage, it’s the commun... Indeed they could, however one could equally make the case that working on (say) the Photoshop code base is product development, having to rewrite or work around faulty NFS or ext3 File System just to get Photoshop to work is an aberration. "Improving Stability" of AWS is rightly "Product Development" that Amazon should be undertaking, not their clients on an individual ad hoc basis.

Improving the stability __of their offering__, which they currently host on AWS, is AWS's clients responsibility.