Amazon Partially Down

#1

Post by GRBurst » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:16 PM UTC

On the webstore, you will be facing the following message “We’re sorry, an error has occurred. Please reload this page and try again.”

Moreover, multiple reports at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/

And on twitter and social media.

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#2

Post by edhelas » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:46 PM UTC

Happy to see news about the Amazon deforestation catastrophe on HN

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#3

Post by elaus » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:51 PM UTC

For me (central Europe) it was down about half an hour. I can't remember the Amazon store website being down that long before. Curious to see what caused this.

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#4

Post by mholt » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:56 PM UTC

Still down here in western US. Some product pages don't even show that error; they're just empty.

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#5

Post by tyingq » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 6:59 PM UTC

AWS us-east-1 had issues last Thursday also

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#6

Post by UI_at_80x24 » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 7:11 PM UTC

tyingq wrote: post #5

AWS us-east-1 had issues last Thursday also

These 2 service issues also seem to match my organizations issues using MS Azure VDI's.

Crashing, Saving files, and general instability of the platform. I have wondered if Azure is doing some load-balancing on AWS.

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#7

Post by Bender » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 7:19 PM UTC

Could it be a coincidence that this occurred after John Oliver's report [1] on tech?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg

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Post by pc86 » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 7:32 PM UTC

Bender wrote: post #7

Could it be a coincidence that this occurred after John Oliver's report [1] on tech? [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg

Not only could it be, it definitely is.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 7:39 PM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #8

Bender wrote: post #7

Could it be a coincidence that this occurred after John Oliver's report [1] on tech? [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg

Not only could it be, it definitely is.

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Post by dnadler » Mon, Jun 13, 2022, 7:45 PM UTC

I just recently published a project and had been mulling over whether I should move it to AWS or keep hosting it on the server in my basement...

Seems like I made the right choice!

In all seriousness, I don't think I'd rely on a single provider for anything these days, unless I really don't care when it goes down. That's pretty easy and cheap to do with most things, but I'm not quite sure how to approach a backup database in an economical way.