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US Amazon.com Website Down For Over 1 Hour

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-goes-the-bottom-line dept.

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."

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  1. DNS Issue by prestonmichaelh · · Score: -1, Redundant
    I had noticed the outage and think it may be a DNS issue. I guess I won't be buying anything today. Take a look at the whois output for amazon.com:

    # whois amazon.com

    Whois Server Version 2.0

    Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
    with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
    for detailed information.

    Server Name: AMAZON.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
    IP Address: 69.41.185.219
    Registrar: INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.COM
    Whois Server: whois.itsyourdomain.com
    Referral URL: http://www.itsyourdomain.com/

    Server Name: AMAZON.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    IP Address: 203.36.226.2
    Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
    Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
    Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net/

    Server Name: AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
    IP Address: 80.190.192.24
    Registrar: EPAG DOMAINSERVICES GMBH
    Whois Server: whois.enterprice.net
    Referral URL: http://www.enterprice.net/

    Domain Name: AMAZON.COM
    Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
    Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
    Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
    Name Server: UDNS1.ULTRADNS.NET
    Name Server: UDNS2.ULTRADNS.NET
    Status: clientDeleteProhibited
    Status: clientTransferProhibited
    Status: clientUpdateProhibited
    Updated Date: 28-mar-2008
    Creation Date: 01-nov-1994
    Expiration Date: 31-oct-2017

    >>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:26:07 EDT
  2. Re:We're sorry... by Mi1ez · · Score: 0, Redundant

    YAY!! And now it's back!!

  3. Re:Great! by pclminion · · Score: -1, Redundant

    If you think the traffic Slashdot is capable of directing to a site is even within the same order of magnitude as what Amazon deals with every day (especially when they're down and people are compulsively reloading), you're insane.

  4. Re:So, it finally happened... by pHatidic · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "They'd just wander around all day, picking people's pockets and teleporting away."

    Like nethack.