The twitterverse is abuzz with the fact that Amazon.com is down. Reports of the outage seem to have come in around 1:25 PM EDT. Users trying to reach the site are greeted with a “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” error.
Pretty significant outage for this major e-commerce retailer. My rough estimate is that the site outage costs Amazon 1.7 million dollars in revenue for every hour they are down. Pretty crazy.
[...] Tom did a quick bit of searching on twitterscan and it seems to have been down for at least the last 30 minutes, based on the first post to twitter regarding the outage. [...]
[...] Amazon.com Suffers Significant OutagePretty significant outage for this major e-commerce retailer. My rough estimate is that the site outage costs Amazon 1.7 million dollars in revenue for every hour they are down. Pretty crazy.No Turn On Red – http://noturnonred.org [...]
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