Amazon Was Down For 3 Hours : +77 Million Lost

June 7, 2008

I was in amazon.com (US & CA) and I saw a little starange message:

I thought that my ISP is again messing with me so I called them and see what’s wrong with amazon.com if they blocked it or not. But everything was ok from the ISP side. Then tried to search what is happening and realized that Amazon.com was down! You know what this means? As an affiliate = Lost in earnings and they also lost (the diffirence is big) check it out what the consumerist have to say about this:

Whoa Amazon is down. It just says, “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable.” Then I tried again and the front page was there, but when I clicked through, same error message. It looks like it’s been this way since at least 1:30 PM, eastern. It was broken for several Consumerist writers who tested it out.

How much money do you think they’re losing every second? Well, Cnet says, “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.” However, that won’t be happening as the international Amazon sites are still up. An Oct ‘07 Bloomberg article says US and Canadian sales account for 55% of revenue, so based on that, they’re losing roughly $17,050 per minute. The stock market seems to have taken notice; Marketwatch says, “Shares of Amazon were down 2.7% to $82.25 in early afternoon trading.”

A post on an online forum for Amazon sellers says, “Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved…We appreciate your patience during this time.”” Does anyone have a spare paperclip? Time to hit the reset button.

UPDATE: 4:04 -It’s spluttering back from the dead. Pages load very slowly and clicking around may still lead to dead pages.

UPDATE: 4:31 - It’s alive! A bit slow, but now once again you can buy everything in the world without leaving your house! Huzzah!

Then I searched about what amazon has to say about it, they didn’t sent any email to their affiliates but they wrote in the amazon seller community:

Greetings from Amazon.com,

We are currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website. As a part of this resolution, some customers may experience error messages that indicate that their access to the Amazon web site has been blocked for various reasons. These reasons my not be directly related to the customer’s account. Access to the website will return when this technical issue is resolved.

Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved. We appreciate your patience during this time. (13:49 PST)

Regards,

Technical Account Management

Amazon.com

3 hours amazon.com have been down that’s equal of more than 77 Million Dollar in lost. What do you think about this?