Amazon.com is down! August 21, 2006

Posted by Slobodan Kovacevic in : News , trackback

Just when I wanted to go shopping on Amazon.com it went down! I know it’s not usual that I write about this kind of things, but hey it’s Amazon.com, one of the top 10 properties on the net. The almighty Amazon was one of the sites I thought I’ll never see going offline. It’s 20:50 CET and I can not access neither Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.ca. However, Amazon.co.jp works perfectly. Is it a DDOS attack? Any ideas?
Amazon.com Down

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1. Dan - August 21, 2006

I’m having the same problem. Just went to digg.com to see if anyone knows what’s going on.

2. Norm - August 21, 2006

It was working fine this morning, so the problem must have just happened within the past couple of hours.

3. Basti - August 21, 2006

It’s been a while for now. Definitely it very strange that all of their servers are down.

Although it’s interesting to see how they handle error. They could have done this a bit more gracefully, i.e. some meaningful message.

4. Peter - August 21, 2006

Canada is up and so is France but Germany, UK and US are all still down.
It’s been at least an hour (-06 GMT)

5. Basti - August 21, 2006

Amazon.com is back now, but amazon.co.uk is still acting strange.

6. Peter - August 21, 2006

ok they are all back up. I’m wondering if it was a coordinated attack?

7. Basti - August 21, 2006

I don’t know, we’ll probably know in next couple days what exactly happend.

Meanwhile, I know that there was a coordinated “attack”, or better yet coordinated bury action to bury this story on Digg, even though it was the first one to address Amazon downtime.

8. kiwwisk - June 6, 2008

today 6.6.2008 again :-)

9. seth - June 9, 2008

its down again right now! Is this a new pattern? WT fetch?

10. Abhishek Shrivastava - June 10, 2008

Down Again Completely…AMAZON YOU GUYS SUCK