2008 06 06
Something terrible is happening to Amazon.com right now: it is not working!
I don’t know about you but I personally find this frightening. In our era of online services, I don’t expect website like Google, Apple and Amazon to stop working. Given that Amazon.com is not a single server but rather a massive cluster, the problem must be really serious. I can imagine hundreds of Amazon engineers maddeningly working on restoring the website to its pristine condition.
For some extremely obscure reason, https://www.amazon.com/ is working.
Jeff Bezos must be mad right now 
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June 6th, 2008 at 23:14
Actually, the secure site appears to be down, as well. I’m finally getting further than the initial error text, but not by much.
Aside from basic security concerns (who’s reading my credit card numbers now?), I find myself wondering how much income this is sapping away from the company.
June 7th, 2008 at 00:10
I’ve read somewhere that they normally earn around $500 per second meaning that they are losing tons of money right now!
Interestingly, it seems that AWS is working well.
June 7th, 2008 at 00:19
Seems to be back up now
June 7th, 2008 at 01:03
Amazon is back online.
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June 7th, 2008 at 07:10
Working now. Although I don’t see any reason why Orange should block Amazon, unless they want to open their own online store… LOL
June 7th, 2008 at 16:29
Site is running fine here
June 8th, 2008 at 09:34
Great! Now I can continue doing my shopping…
More seriously, I think that it’s the first time I’ve witnessed such a major website being down for so many hours. Something terrible must have happened there. And I’m sure lots of heads have been cut
June 9th, 2008 at 14:48
Hi Mr meetoo! I would like to ask you if it is really safe to pay online by credit card!? i am totally new to that and have read that paying online using credit cards is not so safe! I would like know which is the safest way, i mean base on your experience!! Thanks!
btw nice layout and you have got a lot of interesting posts!
June 9th, 2008 at 15:46
Hi Luvish,
I’ve been buying things online for years now and I’ve had no problems at all. Just make sure you only buy from very well known websites like Amazon or Apple etc…
June 9th, 2008 at 21:10
This is off topic here..but Avinash i just came across a blog displaying your flicker pictures..just wanted to let you know about it. link:http://www.mauritius22.blogspot.com/
June 10th, 2008 at 00:56
Hi,
How lucky am I? I’m not a big fan of amazon, and I do not visit amazon.com very
often. However, last friday when it was down, it so happened that I was trying
amazon through HitWiser.com , to test the predictive text! (Sorry Avinash, its working on i.e only at the moment). The error message first made me think that there was something wrong with Hitwiser.com ! haha! I was relieved to see that typing amazon.com on the address bar gave the same error.
More worrying is that it’s not the first time this year!
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/amazon-down.html
June 10th, 2008 at 05:31
Got it mr avinash! Thank you!
June 11th, 2008 at 19:47
damned this is GREAT that amazon is down, now oyu can’t use amazon as a reference to say “big systems like amazon never goes down” :D:D:D
was beginning to get fed up of hearing that amazon is soo perfect :D:D:D:D
i guess, sometimes i do get lucky then