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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."

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  1. How is this news? by McFly69 · · Score: -1, Troll

    How is this news? Websites go down, for various reasons, all the time. How is this story /. worthy?

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  2. OH NOES by snarfies · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, their website was down for one whole friggin' hour. They may (or may not) have lost $31,000/minute, IF the outage was global, not that it was - it was just the US site. Assuming it was global, and assuming they lost the max $31,000, that would be $31,000 out of $16,293,600,000.

    In short, who give a crap. Post a story when they're down for at least 24 hours.

  3. do a whois. Looks like DNS got pwn3d. by AragornSonOfArathorn · · Score: -1, Troll

    Microsoft and Apple got it too.  Probably many others.

    $ 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.

    AMAZON.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
    AMAZON.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    AMAZON.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
    AMAZON.COM

    $ whois microsoft.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.

    MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZZ.MORE.DETAILS.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.ZZZ.IS.0WNED.AND.HAX0RED.BY.SUB7.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.LIVE.FOREVER.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.SLAPPED.IN.THE.FACE.BY.MY.BLUE.VEINED.SPANNER.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.WAREZ.AT.TOPLIST.GULLI.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.USERS.SHOULD.HOST.WITH.UNIX.AT.ITSHOSTED.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.TOTALLY.SUCKS.S3U.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.SOFTWARE.IS.NOT.USED.AT.REG.RU
    MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
    MICROSOFT.COM.OHMYGODITBURNS.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.LOVES.ME.KOSMAL.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.LIVES.AT.SHAUNEWING.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.YEPPA.ORG
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.HOSTED.BY.ACTIVEDOMAINDNS.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.IN.BED.WITH.CURTYV.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.HOSTED.ON.PROFITHOSTING.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.GOD.BECOUSE.UNIXSUCKS.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLSHIT.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.MESS.TIMPORTER.CO.UK
    MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.A.PRESENT.COMING.FROM.HUGHESMISSILES.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM.CAN.GO.FUCK.ITSELF.AT.SECZY.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.ARE.GODDAMN.PIGFUCKERS.NET.NS-NOT-IN-SERVICE.COM
    MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT.EXEGETE.NET
    MICROSOFT.COM

    $ whois apple.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.

    APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM
    APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM
    APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
    APPLE.COM

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  4. Re:So, it finally happened... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    how would you know about?

  5. Re:DNS Issue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL. Ugly bitch has an axe to grind. It is not nor ever was that bad and is already significantly better. Did you leave because your boss turned down your disgusting sexual advances?

  6. Re:So, it finally happened... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yeah, you worked as a secretary at amazon. What would you know about it?