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June 6, 2008
Amazon.com has been inaccessible to many U.S. visitors since at least 10:30 a.m. PDT on Friday.
“Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” was the message that appeared when Amazon customers across the country attempted to log on.
Rumors are flying as to what happened…
Did MediaDefender decide that Amazon was providing copyrighted material and DDoS the site, like they did Rev3 just a week ago?
Is Amazon stocking the online shelves with fresh 3G iPhones?
Has Twitter taken over amazon? Did the little birds that hold up the whale on twitter fly over and drop the whale on Amazon ?
Or is this just a site redesign gone bad? Whatever it is, it will me an economic downturn for Amazon, as even alittle downtime for that site means losses of large scale. Based on last quarter’s revenue of $4.13 billion, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average.
At least some Amazon sites outside the United States appear to be working such as China, the UK, France, and Germany.
The site’s front page has remained available using Amazon’s secure Web site address–https://www.amazon.com–but links on that page aren’t working.
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