Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain? 173
First time accepted submitter Brandon Butler writes "Amazon.com, the multi-billion online retail website, experienced an outage of unknown proportions on Thursday afternoon. Rumblings of an Amazon.com outage began popping up on Twitter at about 2:40 PM ET. Multiple attempts to access the site around 3:15 PM ET on Thursday were met with the message: 'Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.' By 3:30 PM ET the site appeared to be back online for at least some users. How big of a deal is an hour-long Amazon outage? Amazon.com's latest earnings report showed that the company makes about $10.8 billion per quarter, or about $118 million per day and $4.9 million per hour." Update: 01/31 22:25 GMT by T : "Hackers claim credit."
Re:Call the Waaaahmbulance? (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds more like that was 5 million in potential dollars not earned, not 5 million lost. You can't lose what you do not yet have.
I'm glad you aren't in charge of payroll.
Do you think... (Score:3, Funny)
They'll just stay open an extra hour to make up for it???
404 Error? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:or maybe (Score:5, Funny)
they didn't lose that much and people decided their spatula purchase could wait a few hours
Amazon? Spatulas? Everyone knows to get your spatulas at Spatula City.
Hackers claim credit (Score:5, Funny)
Good luck with that. First you have to pack it up in the ORIGINAL packaging, then fill out a Return For Credit form, and then wait at least 10 days for processing...
THEN maybe you can claim your credit.