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:
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.


June 6th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Twitter was down because it runs off of Amazon’s S3 service, which was also down.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Nope, S3 wasn’t down, at least not for us at Scribd.
June 6th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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!