I'm using S3 to serve static image assets to a website. I'm a developer in Montréal, Quebec. My client's office is in LA. Once every month or three we're seeing S3 completely fail to serve images to my client's location for a period of a few minutes to a couple of hours. The last time this happened I was able to verify that the problem did not affect me in Montréal. The S3 status page has never reported any problems for the times my client has seen the problem.
S3 bills itself as a way to host static assets, but this is not really acceptable. S3 aims to provide a 99.9% monthly uptime which I believe translates to about 45 minutes of downtime a month - even if we accept this, this is not really acceptable for a CDN!
Any ideas?