It's pretty disappointing how these types of stories get parroted around the web, without any valuable research added.<p>As an EC2 user, I'd like to see less words and more measurements.  Amazon has dozens of datacenters, probably each containing dozens or hundreds of independent sub-nodes, but we don't have any data regarding who is affected.  In fact, Cloudkick hasn't given us any information regarding how they sampled their data.<p>I know that my EC2 instance isn't experiencing latency problems, so is it possible that a small number of nodes have developed problems, and that is skewing the average?<p>Anyone with some useful information, please share!