I can't disagree. Nothing is absolute. Word of mouth is always valuable and no matter what credits you've got under your belt if you've been blackballed you're never going to work again but still I feel my point stands.
With so many eggs being in one basket it really makes me wonder when AWS goes down if it isn't actually something that's an attack when they say something like "oh it's just DNS" because why would they admit it?
It's very nice of them to make the list for us.