Amazon was down

http://amazon.com?what

by jemhoff • 13 years ago

67 61 13 years ago

amazon.com

darkxanthos• 13 years ago

Just blew the minds of everyone I work with.

jgv• 13 years ago

Whenever something like this happens I always think it was my fault because I just ordered a tube of toothpaste.

autotravis2• 13 years ago

's/think/hope/g'

ihuman3• 13 years ago

:%s/think/hope/g

JeremyMorgan2• 13 years ago

It's not the order itself, its just that hit the submit button too many times.

jttam• 13 years ago

At least AWS is still up!

martin_3• 13 years ago

It's usually the reverse... AWS goes down but Amazon carries on quite happily

acdha• 13 years ago

> AWS goes down but Amazon carries on quite happily

Usually more like “isolated parts of AWS go down and people who didn't follow Amazon's deployment guidelines complain”

jpswade• 13 years ago

"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

Proxy down?

kivikakk• 13 years ago

Whoops, forgot to check nginx.conf didn't have any syntax errors before restarting!

Tobani4• 13 years ago

its not down. They are just experiencing api slowness... chill!

martin_3• 13 years ago

It's definitely down

Tobani4• 13 years ago

you apparently have never been to the aws status page.

acangiano2• 13 years ago

I wonder how many millions are lost per minute of downtime.

CurtMonash• 13 years ago

Revenue lost? Revenue briefly deferred? Profit lost? Profit briefly deferred?

Those are four very different numbers.

acangiano2• 13 years ago

I was thinking revenue lost.

themckman• 13 years ago

I, honestly, doubt very much. I'm sure you'll have a percentage of potential customers not make a purchase at all because the site is down, but everyone that is committed to buying whatever it was they were going to look for will just wait until the site is back up.

macleanjr• 13 years ago

I don't recall the source, but I've seen that the loss due to downtime is negligible, and that customers return at a later time to complete their purchase.

ams61102• 13 years ago

I'd agree for people who are buying stuff they need or otherwise are making considered purchases. I don't believe that they don't lose at least some amount of impulse purchases.

potatolicious2• 13 years ago

I'd suspect not a lot. The number that gets tossed around is based on the whole year's sales divided by downtime - but that fails to account for seasonality.

The retail market in the USA can be accurately summarized as "slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle MASSIVE DELUGE OMG OMG slow trickle slow trickle..."

It would shock people how much consumer spending is shoved into the November-December time frame. Since this downtime is in the middle of May, I don't expect them to lose much money at all.

shawabawa3• 13 years ago

Also, a lot of the "lost" orders during the down time will actually just be delayed. I imagine most people will just try to place their order again tomorrow

priteau• 13 years ago

All other Amazon sites (.co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.) are up.

fredley• 13 years ago

It's spontaneously up for me, sometimes I get a homepage, most of the time I get Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.

ams61102• 13 years ago

Seeing the same, probably depends which front-end server the load balancers route you to.

marithe• 13 years ago

spontaneously?

singlow• 13 years ago

intermittently

etjossem• 13 years ago

Sporadically.

Fletch137• 13 years ago

Still up for me at 3PM, Northwest UK.

tannerc• 13 years ago

Looks like it's back up now.

afshinmeh2• 13 years ago

What happening to Amazon? #wtf

afshinmeh2• 13 years ago

It's alive now.

mayneack• 13 years ago

Not for me

JeremyMorgan2• 13 years ago

they should get some better web hosting!

pfg• 13 years ago

they should try this new aws thing everyone is talking about!

simplyinfinity• 13 years ago

nah man ... they should move away from HostGator and go to Linode! I've heard real nice things about Linode

ericb• 13 years ago

Some folks at Amazon are having a really bad day right now.

noir_lord• 13 years ago

I suspect they are having a busy day right now, tomorrow will be the bad day :).

edem• 13 years ago

I wonder whether Wall Street will feel this or not.

Uchikoma• 13 years ago

Who changed this to "was down"? (After 23 minutes) it still is 90% down on reload (for me).

kylec2• 13 years ago

The title now says "Amazon was down" but I'm still getting "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"

RyanMcGreal• 13 years ago

I removed the querystring from the URL and then it worked for me.

kylec2• 13 years ago

I did as well, and still got the error. I'm now getting the home page, but that doesn't necessarily mean the site's fully back up.

up_and_up• 13 years ago

This seems to be working:

http://www.amazon.com/?is_it_jeff=1

heliostatic• 13 years ago

Tried buying something just now, errored out.

Amazon was down

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