I doubt it. The amazon servers are very powerful and they provide an excellent service, otherwise ArenaNet wouldn't have chosen them. What do you think is wrong with them? The problem is Amazon servers are essentially virtual machines. This is why no actual specs are provided for them, and that the CPU power needed to handle such ping and skill lag issues getting worse and worse, just isn't strong enough. Hopefully once alliances comes out (whenever that is)... they will have figured out the performance issue on this. However there still remains that one main problem. Desync issues when engaging on a large group of people without having everyone randomly just run in a straight line past you as you realize you are close to disconnecting (aka desynced). Nearly all servers nowadays are virtual machines.Also, if there are ping issues as you describe, then Anet could pay for additional server resources. Since it appears that they haven't, then I suggest it might be because their reporting and statistics don't agree with what you are observing. Maybe the issue lies with your home network or ISP?