Comments on: Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday

Visitors to the world's largest e-commerce site were greeted with an error message. Causes of the outage unknown.

[tamade-ganinia]

started at 10:30am and its now 10:46am and I still cant access it.

[ibeetle]

It is obvious that Amazon has shut down their site to restructure it to keep up with the high demand come Monday when the new iPhone goes on sale.
In fact I saw a report that the entire internet except those that sell iPhones will completely shut down; Even all retailers except Apple stores and AT&T stores will close for business Monday.

[mkrieger0101]

Absolutely hilarious.

Also-Amazon had a small number of metal gear solid 80 gig PS3 bundles at noon central time, maybe that messed them up.

[wclanders]

Do everyone a favor and cancel your internet account.

[eeee]

ibeetle: what nonsense!!!
the whole internet will not shut down because of an iphone

the whole internet will shut down when we have pigs that fly

[darthgerber]

11:00AM and still down... :(

[Dyp]

2pm in the east coast and still not accessible

@ibeetle: funny.

[ChicoJones]

The amazon.com website is still available by using the https protocol, such as: https://www.amazon.com/.


Thanks.
Chico "goz" Jones

[whitewater]

Unfortunately since all of the links point back to the http site, you can't get past the home page.

[PS3Gamer_MGS4]

This is all over the PS3 forums. The pre-order for the Metal Gear Solid 4 - 80GB PS3 bundle went on sale a few minutes before Amazon went down.

[KEtheredge87]

This might be pure coincidence, but Amazon opened their pre-order option for the 80GB Metal Gear Solid 4 Playstation 3 bundle at 10AM Pacific time. Their site shut down soon after that. Perhaps they were flooded with anxious MGS fans trying to get their 80GB PS3's?

[RHartzell]

ChicoJones: Visiting the secure version of the site doesn't help much -- all the links on the home page go to nonsecure pages that don't display.

[enlighten86]

It's more than just Amazon - there are problems with other sites as well it seems. I've been getting Page Can Not be Displayed errors all morning.

[Dead Soulman]

I was wondering why I couldn't connect past the front page. Wow, this is crazy. 2:36pm. It seems to be coming back by sections.

[64bprophet]

Hy, did you see? Amazon.com has a job opening for a Systems Administrator... I wonder what happened to the old one?

[thesplintercell]

it's ironic that this made the news....i was online to buy my fiance a navigation system for her birthday and couldn't get on amazon to do it. even worse, i found the same unit @ buydig for 10 bucks cheaper than amazon, so i just snagged it from there.

[mhinnewyork]

As of 2:38PM ET, Amazon is still down.

[taotaobabe]

at least gold box works

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27

[Jamie_Foster]

Don't they use Linux/Apache. Maybe Windows Server/IIS is better engineered than people want to admit.

[The_Decider]

Yeah right, even if the cause was an OS or a web server, that doesn't prove that MS's laughable server products aren't still crap. I guess your comment makes sense to MS fan boys.

[DigitalSnowman]

I don't think this has to do with the release of Metal Gear pre-orders (sorry, PS3 just isn't popular enough) or "preparing for the new iPhone" - no business will take their site down for HOURS during peak sales time during the day without so much as a "sorry, we're doing maintenance" page for the sale of a single product. These things might be popular in the eyes of the people interested in them, but the rest of the public isn't biting its nails in anticipation of a new cell phone or video game.

I'm speculating that this is a routing issue with one of Amazon's top-tier data pipe providers. All it takes is one person to flip the wrong switch or update a routing table incorrectly and all of a sudden a site becomes inaccessible. Changes in routing info take time to spread across the internet, so the problem may be resolved, but all of the downstream routers need to update their info to transfer the data correctly again. It looks like Amazon will be buying a backup data pipe from a completely different provider for their systems in the future.

[eeee]

thanks snowman
People are so wound up in their silly new phones or games that they think the whole universe revolves around them and their interest

"the whole internet is shut down" what nonsense ! ! !

[hackian]

Their web service status page shows these services seem to be up...
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

[StickyC]

Maybe they're jealous of Twitter's recent headlines?
They say there's no such thing as bad PR...

[tamade-ganinia]

its only the front end as far as i could tell. I've been working on the sellercentral part of amazon doing inventory and orders when I noticed that all links to the front is unaccessible.

[Dead Soulman]

I was wondering why I couldn't connect past the front page. Wow, this is crazy. 2:36pm. It seems to be coming back by sections.