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Amazon was down
- darkxanthos 13y agoJust blew the minds of everyone I work with.
- jgv 13y agoWhenever something like this happens I always think it was my fault because I just ordered a tube of toothpaste.
- autotravis 13y ago's/think/hope/g'
- ihuman 13y ago:%s/think/hope/g
- autotravis 13y agoVim? real programmers use sed.
- ihuman 13y agoReal programmers use a magnatized needle and a steady hand
- joe-mccann 13y agoclassic
- swatkat 13y agohttp://xkcd.com/378/ http://xkcd.com/378/ :)
- buster 13y ago:s/think/hope/ It's one line of text.
- JeremyMorgan 13y agoIt's not the order itself, its just that hit the submit button too many times.
- jttam 13y agoAt least AWS is still up!
- jpswade 13y ago"Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" Proxy down?
- kivikakk 13y agoWhoops, forgot to check nginx.conf didn't have any syntax errors before restarting!
- Tobani 13y agoits not down. They are just experiencing api slowness... chill!
- martin_ 13y agoIt's definitely down
- Tobani 13y agoyou apparently have never been to the aws status page.
- munimkazia 13y agoWe are talking about Amazon.com, not AWS. They are completely independent services
- throwaway86542 13y agoAmazon.com does run on EC2. You can bet that if EC2 had a a complete regional outage (which is extremely rare) Amazon.com would be down. In general Amazon.com makes extensive use of AWS services internally as well, but it's very well architected to handle service outages without it being immediately obvious to the end user.
- rpdillon 13y agoAmazon.com doesn't run on EC2.
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- Tobani 13y agoI understand this wasn't a general AWS outage, AWS !== amazon.com, and that successful hosting in EC2 requires specific architectural decisions to make things run reliably in face of zone/region outages. What i didn't realize was that jokes about Amazon being somewhat slow and cryptic with information about outages while they're happening were off-limits.
- acangiano 13y agoI wonder how many millions are lost per minute of downtime.
- CurtMonash 13y agoRevenue lost? Revenue briefly deferred? Profit lost? Profit briefly deferred? Those are four very different numbers.
- acangiano 13y agoI was thinking revenue lost.
- polymatter 13y agoI recall someone claiming to be an amazon developer one of the previous times when this happened claiming that they don't actually lose that much money. (sorry no link, my google-fu has failed me). A small number of orders where people are desperate are lost, but the vast majority of people generally just wait it out and make their order tomorrow instead.
- tedder 13y ago10 years ago we calculated downtime at $100k/minute for the homepage. So when you tried to do an ajaxy thing on the home page and messed it up, even after testing, you had to write an email that calculated how much theoretical money was lost. And sure, there's some elasticity, but an approximation is handy.
- themckman 13y agoI, honestly, doubt very much. I'm sure you'll have a percentage of potential customers not make a purchase at all because the site is down, but everyone that is committed to buying whatever it was they were going to look for will just wait until the site is back up.
- macleanjr 13y ago
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- priteau 13y agoAll other Amazon sites (.co.uk, .fr, .de, etc.) are up.
- fredley 13y agoIt's spontaneously up for me, sometimes I get a homepage, most of the time I get Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.
- Fletch137 13y agoStill up for me at 3PM, Northwest UK.
- tannerc 13y agoLooks like it's back up now.
- afshinmeh 13y agoWhat happening to Amazon? #wtf
- afshinmeh 13y agoIt's alive now.
- mayneack 13y agoNot for me
- JeremyMorgan 13y agothey should get some better web hosting!
- pfg 13y agothey should try this new aws thing everyone is talking about!
- simplyinfinity 13y agonah man ... they should move away from HostGator and go to Linode! I've heard real nice things about Linode
- ericb 13y agoSome folks at Amazon are having a really bad day right now.
- noir_lord 13y agoI suspect they are having a busy day right now, tomorrow will be the bad day :).
- edem 13y agoI wonder whether Wall Street will feel this or not.
- Uchikoma 13y agoWho changed this to "was down"? (After 23 minutes) it still is 90% down on reload (for me).
- kylec 13y agoThe title now says "Amazon was down" but I'm still getting "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable"
- RyanMcGreal 13y agoI removed the querystring from the URL and then it worked for me.
- up_and_up 13y agoThis seems to be working: http://www.amazon.com/?is_it_jeff=1 http://www.amazon.com/?is_it_jeff=1
- heliostatic 13y agoTried buying something just now, errored out.
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