I've noticed over the years whenever there's an AWS outage, Amazon.com doesn't seem to be impacted. My assumption is that they'd be one of the first to go down. Any idea why?
Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages?
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#2Some functions were down, e.g. order history.
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#3I was having trouble with the store this morning.
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#4Multi-region failover?
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#6No idea if it's related, but this is the first time I've seen "We're sorry, Customer Service chat and phone lines are not currently available at the moment."
I've been getting message all morning about delivery delays. All were supposed to be delivered today and now they're anywhere between tomorrow and thursday.
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#7It was impacted. Amazon.com was unusable for me this morning. All I could get loaded was the header section and a blank page saying "Something went wrong."
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#8It was impacted. Amazon.com was unusable for me this morning. All I could get loaded was the header section and a blank page saying "Something went wrong."
Same here, couldn't add things to cart or see the prices for a lot of things.
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#10I can't get any filtering functionality right now. The question isn't "why wasn't it impacted" and more like, why is it still degraded?