Amazon.com Website Down
The Web site of Amazon.com, the Web’s biggest retailer, has been down and unavailable for the last hour.
On an Amazon discussion forum for sellers, a post entitled “Amazon Un-Planned Event (06/06)” says that the company is “currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website.”
“Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved,” the post says. “We appreciate your patience during this time.”
The post is dated 10:37 West Coast time. Amazon has not returned requests for comment.
Amazon’s S3 service, which many Web sites use for back-end services like serving up large amounts of data, appears to be operating normally.
Outages among major Web companies like this are rare nowadays. Back in 1999, eBay went down for 22 hours, costing it millions in revenue.
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