True, and I had actually misread dmors' post entirely here; I read the post as stating Twilio's blog was not reliant on AWS in anyway, which would have been a misrepresentation in my mind. However in hindsight this was not the case, and I will certainly admit when I am wrong.
dmor, really? It looks like the blog points to AWS, as does your API?
jdyer@aleph:~ [git:master] <ruby-1.9.2>
» host api.twilio.com
api.twilio.com is an alias for public-vip374d1ca4e.prod.twilio.com.
public-vip374d1ca4e.prod.twilio.com is an alias for ec2-174-129-254-101.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-174-129-254-101.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 174.129.254.101
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jdyer@aleph:~ [git:master] <ruby-1.9.2>
» host www.twilio.com
www.twilio.com is an alias for public-vip29c4ab3d.prod.twilio.com.
public-vip29c4ab3d.prod.twilio.com is an alias for ec2-174-129-253-75.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-174-129-253-75.compute-1.amazonaws.com has address 174.129.253.75
Nice write up, pretty interesting that Skype has not come out and said anything about WTF happened. Also ironic that their security blog's last posting it titled "The importance of updating" :) ( http://blogs.skype.com/garage/ )