Amazon Says Hardware, Not Hackers, Caused Outage

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Amazon has denied reports that its European sites were brought down by a DoS attack by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause. The retailer was a planned target for the attackers, called Anonymous. But Amazon said it was a hardware failure in its European data centre network that caused the half hour outage in Europe."

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Re:Yes but...

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sales lost for many people suddenly _hate_ Amazon is directly related to WikiLeaks debacle

You're not taking into account the customers they retain or attract as people learn more about the actual facts. Amazon is under no obligation to let oily weasles like Assange operate outside of their TOS, and they have a strong incentive to been seen actually enforcing their stated policies. Likewise, people who see that Amazon can easily weather a moderately aggressive DDoS like that juvenile tantrum thrown by Anonymous now have that much more of a reason to trust Amazon while buying goods or considering where to host cloud-ish stuff. This whole thing has been a fine demonstration of Amazon's infrastructure, and a good object lesson in why you should read the hosting company's TOS when operating the web site you use to take money and handle stolen government documents.