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Amazon.com back after over an hour offline

After a considerable outage that started around 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Amazon.com's homepage is now back up and still trying to get someone, anyone, to buy a Kindle. Shortly after the outage, the company issued a short statement in the forums for 3rd party sellers titled "Amazon Un-Planned Event" — not such an unusual occurrence, apparently, but rarely of this magnitude: More »

12:20 PM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Jackson West
1,006 views, 4 comments

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Amazon.com site outage doesn't exactly inspire confidence in world domination plans

It's one thing when Twitter goes limp (again). It's another when e-commerce oligarch Amazon.com can't keep it up for customers. But that's just what readers are reporting, and we've confirmed. I mean, if you're going to rule the Web, it really is best to remain virile atop your throne. Sure it means lost sales for Amazon — and for its network of affiliates — but our question is, are Web startups using the company's "cloud" services such as EC2 also experiencing problems? Update: Even an attempt to access the site via IP address instead of domain name is for naught, ruling out a simple DNS issue.

10:40 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Jackson West
1,799 views, 8 comments

Latest by onethumb: S3 and EC2 are running fine, yes. Of course, it's pretty easy to check that: [status.aws.amazon.com] :) more »

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Amazon.com's grid-computing service goes offline for 90 minutes, saving its profitless customers money

A number of servers running Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud service, which provides pay-by-the-hour computation, went offline this morning from 2 to 3:30 a.m. EC2 is one of Amazon's developer services, offering low-cost virtual servers mostly to startups. Dozens of users complained in this thread on Amazon's message board, where an Amazon staffer reported the "notworking team" — a Freudian slip for "networking"? — was on the problem. What were they complaining about? That their websites stopped losing money for 90 minutes? More »

10:40 AM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Jordan Golson
1,110 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: nice cloud more »

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Amazon.com gives startups a 50-percent-off sale

Jeff Bezos likes to say he's in the business of delighting customers. And then he delivers that howling, hooting laugh. The latest guffaw-provoker: Amazon EC2, a service which lets startups run their programs on servers housed in Amazon.com's datacenters. When it launched, Amazon promised "the equivalent of a 1.7GHz x86 processor" — in other words, a fairly low-powered server, but at the cost of a dime an hour. Ted Dziuba, the acid-tongued former editor of Uncov, found that Amazon actually delivered half that performance. Why haven't you heard more about this? Likely because most of the me-too, slapdash websites making use of Amazon's EC2 aren't running anything more processor-intensive than an index-hit SQL select. More »

1:20 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,065 views, 10 comments

Latest by Figaro: @onethumb: You fail worse than your site. more »