Amazon Down?

[btas2]

Anyone else finding Amazon unavailable? I'm just wondering how long it's been out and how many affiliate sales I'm loosing!

I haven't been able to make any connection since 1pm Eastern. Don't know before that. All I can get is a "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" message. All other websites seem fine.

[Joop]

working for me but very slow!

[btas2]

The odd thing is that their affiliates site is just fine. There are no announcements there about any outage, but I've had reports from a bunch of different people that my affiliate links aren't working and neither are affiliate links on other websites.

[Brett_Tabke]

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

twitter:
Guy Kawasaki " I never thought I'd see the day that Amazon is down and Twitter is up."

[WeaselyOne]

Ha - now that's funny and true at the same time.

[Joop]

ah, i see now. i checked amazon.co.uk. i see amazon.com is down tho

[Philosopher]

working sporadically here in the DFW area.

[supafresh]

major network issues someone run a tracert and see where its failing.. i cant my firewall wont allow it.

[higgins]

down for me too... noticed it about 1pm CST.

[himalayaswater]

Not a network issue, this is server or load balancer issue. "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" == capacity problem and nothing to do with network.

[jchampliaud]

Down for me too in France, but Amazon.fr seems to be working.

[higgins]

Someone ring the marketing department

[edited by: rogerd at 7:20 pm (utc) on June 6, 2008]
[edit reason] no URLs, please [/edit]

[WiseWebDude]

I get this too:

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

[blaze]

yeah, down. Yeep. Wonder how much money they lose per second.

[blaze]

Probably not that much. I suspect most people just delay there purchases.

[WiseWebDude]

Just got back up here in Tennessee.

[DigitalDiva]

I wonder how many people delay or just don't purchase anymore from Amazon (or just maybe for a while). I've been in the online space for a few years now & I feel pretty safe about ordering things online...but this will make me think twice about ordering from Amazon - at least until it wears off a bit...but right now my sense of security isn't too high with them.

[physics]

amazon.com is down for me but not www.amazon.com

Wonder if they'll post on WebmasterWorld for help ;)

[maximillianos]

Still down here.

[xsd_ns]

Thats a shame, wonder how much its costing them in revenue not to mention reputation.

The site is still down.

[WiseWebDude]

YUP, I type it in w/o the www. and it does not come up, but WITH the www. it does come up.

[pab1953]

Down here too, Northeast US, 3:25 pm. Very strange.

[swa66]

That's not going to be good for my affiliate earnings. (and yeah, they do work fine if they are up and running).

[maserati86]

BTW, twitter is down too (for maintenance or maybe to support Amazon action)
FB

[eeek]

I get this too:

Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

It's now giving me this:

We're sorry!
An error occurred when we tried to process your request. Rest assured, we're already working on the problem and expect to resolve it shortly.

If you were trying to make a purchase, please check Your Account to confirm that the order was placed.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[webfoo]

www.amazon.com doesn't work for me. co.uk and .fr both work.

They're not loosing any money, they're just not getting any.

[higgins]

I mentioned that Amazon is losing money with PPC ads still running... If you haven't already, AMZ affiliates should consider pausing your ads.

[eeek]

They're up!

[TrustNo1]

Rumor is it's a botnet attack - [appscout.com...]

There are 4 shoe merchants at Commission Junction that just sent out an email that they're experiencing a botnet attack and they're taking their sites down while some preventative measures are put in place and they hope to be back up within a week.

[edited by: TrustNo1 at 9:45 pm (utc) on June 6, 2008]

[weeks]

Associated Press reported at 6 pm that Amazon "went down for more than two hours in the middle of the day Friday."

Shawn White, Keynote's director of external operations, says an error in the configuration of the Web site might have caused the shut down.

White says another reason might have been be server overload, but he says Amazon has a history of being able to handle large loads of visitors....White says the Web site was back up to 60 percent capability around noon.