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Yesterday, Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service went down for the second time this year, bringing a swathe of web 2.0 sites down with it. Sites and apps like SmugMug, Twhirl, Twitter, SlideShare, and even SitePoint were all affected by the downtime. As WebWorkerDaily notes, Amazon’s SLA guarantees 99.9% uptime — or about no more than 45 minutes downtime per month. So it’s a safe bet that Amazon will owe a bunch of sites refunds for this most recent hours-long outage.