tracerouted from my company looking glass, seems that its possible to reach the amazon gateway in Ireland so seems to be a server issue so I suppose it could be a DDOS type attack, but with the size of the amazon infrastructure (S3) I would be incredibly suprised if someone would be able to manage to kill it for long!
Looking Glass Results: Telehouse North
Query: trace
Addr:
www.amazon.co.uktrace
www.amazon.co.ukTranslating "
www.amazon.co.uk"
...domain server (64.235.225.54) [OK]
Type Ctrl-C to abort.
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Tracing the route to
www.amazon.co.uk (178.236.4.29), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
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TTL Hostname Probe1 Probe2 Probe3
1 Port-Channel100.asr1.LON2.gblx.net (64.209.95.173) 001.000 ms 001.000 ms 000.000 ms
2 xe-0-0-0.lon10.ip4.tinet.net (213.200.77.233) 015.000 ms 016.000 ms 035.000 ms
3 xe-2-0-0.dub10.ip4.tinet.net (89.149.186.198) 035.000 ms 035.000 ms 017.000 ms
4 amazon-gw.ip4.tinet.net (77.67.75.62) 018.000 ms 073.000 ms
amazon-ireland-gw.ip4.tinet.net (213.200.67.30) 035.000 ms
5 178.236.0.196 035.000 ms
178.236.0.194 016.000 ms 019.000 ms
6 178.236.0.68 018.000 ms 032.000 ms 035.000 ms
7 178.236.0.67 017.000 ms 096.000 ms 028.000 ms
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