Amazon.com goes down worldwide

Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.de all 401

[migriffin]

It appears that all Amazon properties may have gone down around 1:00 CST. We've confirmed this with several colleagues across the US.

[akmac]

Wow. yes, it's down in Alaska.

[Raymond]

I wonder if everybody gets more sales because of amazon's outage :)

[migriffin]

It's back up in the US. UK and DE are still down.

[akmac]

Some lucky system administrators just got a hefty adrenaline spike. I know the feeling.

[julesn]

Back up in the UK now, was down for around 70 mins at least.

Being more general - how do site outages affect sales? IMHO customers who were planning to purchase something specific would probably hold off and try again a bit later, providing that the outage is not of several hours, and the purchase not particularly time sensetive..

Of course that doesn't recover lost window shopping / browsing time.

jules.

[Essex_boy]

Its not so much the lost sales but the lost credability.