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Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain?

Posted by timothy on from the what-is-the-richter-scale-for-net-outages? dept.

First time accepted submitter Brandon Butler writes "Amazon.com, the multi-billion online retail website, experienced an outage of unknown proportions on Thursday afternoon. Rumblings of an Amazon.com outage began popping up on Twitter at about 2:40 PM ET. Multiple attempts to access the site around 3:15 PM ET on Thursday were met with the message: 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.' By 3:30 PM ET the site appeared to be back online for at least some users. How big of a deal is an hour-long Amazon outage? Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour." Update: 01/31 22:25 GMT by T : "Hackers claim credit."

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  1. Re:Call the Waaaahmbulance? by Anonymous+Psychopath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds more like that was 5 million in potential dollars not earned, not 5 million lost. You can't lose what you do not yet have.

    I'm glad you aren't in charge of payroll.

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  2. Do you think... by tscheez · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll just stay open an extra hour to make up for it???

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  3. 404 Error? by dnahelicase · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Amazon should consider moving to the cloud...

  4. Re:or maybe by Applekid · · Score: 5, Funny

    they didn't lose that much and people decided their spatula purchase could wait a few hours

    Amazon? Spatulas? Everyone knows to get your spatulas at Spatula City.

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  5. Hackers claim credit by new+death+barbie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good luck with that. First you have to pack it up in the ORIGINAL packaging, then fill out a Return For Credit form, and then wait at least 10 days for processing...

    THEN maybe you can claim your credit.

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