Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?

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by redorb • 18 years ago

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redorb3• 18 years ago

I'm getting a HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable from here http://web-sniffer.net/?url=www.amazon.com&submit=Submit... and of course from my own PC

dougp• 18 years ago

Something was going on yesterday I was getting error screens all over the site.

byrneseyeview• 18 years ago

It's back up.

mynameishere2• 18 years ago

It's back down.

davidw• 18 years ago

Weird:

> You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.

markbao• 18 years ago

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/amazon.com Still down.

https://amazon.com still works.

a-priori• 18 years ago

http://amazon.ca also works. It's only the .com that's down.

jcl• 18 years ago

Odd... Amazon.com works fine for me, despite the downforeveryone site saying it doesn't.

nickb• 18 years ago

AWS services are all up. Just checked.

toffer• 18 years ago

AWS status updates here:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/

redorb3• 18 years ago

on that page it says "we are having issues with aws.amazon.com" so the domain itself (including subdomains) are in trouble...

- Im predicting the https: will break soon (Currently working) as people find out that it is working ...

TC just said its been down for over an hour ...huge, huge money...

prakash3• 18 years ago

.com is back up now.

astine• 18 years ago

S3 is still working. I don't know what's up with Amazon, but it seems to be just their storefront.

garyrichardson• 18 years ago

My EC2 instances are all up. It's specific to Amazon's main site.

lpgauth• 18 years ago

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

asenchi3• 18 years ago

Amazing how long it's been down for, I would figure this to be something that they'd work to resolve nearly immediately.

Thorsten• 18 years ago

yeah, its being worked on as we speak.

redorb3• 18 years ago

"he strongest day of holiday sales for Amazon was December 10th, on which customers ordered 62.5 items pers second for a total of 5.4 million items. On its peak shipping day, the retailer shipped products internationally to more than 200 countries, moving more than 3.9 million shipments." from: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16762

- although its from the same spam article that said they sold 17 wiis a second (when they were in stock) in 2007 ...

I would say every 10 minutes cost ...

78mm for a quarter in 07, (4 months = 120 day) 78mm/120 = 650k/day = 27k/hour = $450/sec ... they are losing big would love to hear the story behind it.

icey2• 18 years ago

If there is ever a post-mortem for this outage, I really hope it gets linked here. I'm interested to see what it could have been.

prakash3• 18 years ago

I went to a recent AWS talk by one of their evangelists, where they mentioned that AWS is separate from amazon.com, in terms of the hardware used.

ckinnan• 18 years ago

It's time to put Amazon on AWS then?!?

comforteagle• 18 years ago

My ec2 instances are up.

prakash3• 18 years ago

It would be interesting to know what kind of failover mechanisms they follow and the reasons for the outage, and how much money they lost due to this?

asenchi3• 18 years ago

Well according to returns last year, about $503/revenue per second. $15.9 billion last year.

dangoldin• 18 years ago

I'm not it's accurate to give a $ revenue for second. For me personally, if I wanted to buy something and the site didn't work. I would just come back in an hour; not sure how others would change their behavior.

mhartl• 18 years ago

I get "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable", but if I refresh the page in my browser it comes right up. Click on a link? "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable". Weird.

gibsonf1• 18 years ago

Our AWS web app (EC2 + S3) has been running fine without interruption or delay.

icey2• 18 years ago

To me this smells of a rollout gone terribly, terribly wrong.

breck• 18 years ago

$14.8 billion in revenue ~= $28,000 per minute

So an hour of downtime costs ~ $1.69 million

Very rough estimates, but could be close.

maximilian2• 18 years ago

Assuming you average their revenue. But i'll betcha they make a lot of their money in spikes, so going down on a random friday evening, although costly, isn't as costly as 1.69 million. Also, what percentage of people who wanna buy something at the moment its down, won't come back later?

brk• 18 years ago

Works for me now. I wonder if the outage was related to adding the 3G iphone to their catalog?

rbanffy• 18 years ago

LOL. That and the addition of the bazillion servers to cope with the sudden traffic surge the 3G iPhone will cause.

auston• 18 years ago

My question is, will a new order that I place today be properly logged...

maximilian2• 18 years ago

Can you imagine being the guy or team that f'ed this up? Think how terribly nervous/stressed you'd be for the hour or so until you fixed it!? An hour would blow by in minutes as they frantically hammered on the keyboard in a terminal to see what got f'ed, just thinking that they are loosing your salary in revenue every minute or something awful. I can't imagine being an admin in that sorta situation.

Amazon is down ... implications for AWS?

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