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US Amazon.com Website Down For Over 1 Hour
CorporalKlinger writes "CNET News is reporting that Amazon's US website, Amazon.com, has been unreachable since 10:30 AM PDT today. As of posting, visiting www.amazon.com produces an 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable' message. According to CNET, "Based on last quarter's revenue of $4.13 billion, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average." Some of Amazon's international websites still appear to be working, and some pages on the US Amazon.com site load if accessed using HTTPS instead of HTTP."
I guess somebody spilled beer on the servers? I had no idea the guys from FARK also ran Amazon.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
I'm sure the sysadmins appreciate Slashdot sending thousands of requests their way while they're site's already down. While we're at it, maybe we should find someone with a papercut and start squirting lemon juice all over them.
Wait until a patent comes out for: "Taking a web presense offline, to generate discussion about the web presense, thereby increasing awareness about the site." Also, sucks to be the guy that stepped on the surge protector laying on the floor....
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
One of the top sellers on Amazon is the D&D 4th Edition Core Rules giftset. It apparently is only shipping to some pre-orders. The geeks are freaking out and untintentionally DoS'ing Amazon.
Hmmmm... sounds like they are being DoS'ed by MediaDefender.
Okay mythical female Slashdot reader, with your unicorn and leprechauns friends chasing chupacabres out of the Amazon codebase. We believe you.
Yeah, it wasn't like that at all. There used to be a few chupacabras, but I think the shoggoths ate them all, and those leprechauns never did any work. They'd just wander around all day, picking people's pockets and teleporting away.
Out in the back, working on his car.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
No, that's me you're referring to.