Yep. I actually thought this could end up being an issue. They simply integrated the system with steemimg I believe which is still centralized. So if you used IMGUR for example and their service was unreachable for some reason this same thing would happen.
EDIT: It does look like quite a few sites are having problems that use AWS right now. It is pretty widespread. I rebooted my machine a few minutes ago wondering why various sites seemed slow or were not showing images, and then I had a coworker share the aws status link.
EDIT 2: This is actually pretty huge and is impacting a lot of sites, and other image hosting sites as well.
Massive! 😱 But imagine if this was a censorship drive or something similar? But I believe that steemit.com doesn't fully rely on AWS and it wouldn't be impossible to migrate, as sneak said. Still, this is not a drill!
steemit.com runs 100% inside of AWS.
Thanks for the clarification
Yeah it is well beyond steemit and is impacting tons of sites all over the place.