Jun 6, 2008

It seems that lots of sites are down today–most notably Amazon. I can only imagine the lost revenue and heads that rolling up in Seattle.

I actually needed to purchase a book, and, after getting a few generic error pages, I was presented with this:

Amazon.com: We're sorry!

Thanks Amazon, I appreciate you thinking that I’m now a hacker when your site is down. Heaven forbid that I actually wanted to try to purchase something. I understand that your site is down, but, please, get your error pages in order. I hope for their sake that this page isn’t being widely seen.

Then, I tried to tweet about it, but twitter is down, most likely from everyone trying to tweet that Amazon is down.

3 Responses to “Thanks Amazon for Thinking That I’m A Hacker When Your Site is Down”

  1. Tyler Says:

    Twitter was down because it runs off of Amazon’s S3 service, which was also down.

  2. James Yu Says:

    Nope, S3 wasn’t down, at least not for us at Scribd.

  3. Vinay Says:

    I got a different error page.. but definitely not this..! Strange! The API calls and S3 were fine.. only the http of amazon.com was down. The site was still running perfect in https://www.amazon.com/ (SSL) though!

    Cheers!

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