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Amazon Partially Down

by GRBurst on 6/13/22, 6:16 PM with 16 comments

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.

  • by edhelas on 6/13/22, 6:46 PM

    Happy to see news about the Amazon deforestation catastrophe on HN
  • by ac2022 on 6/13/22, 8:59 PM

    Pretty funny, I was going to order a balance board that I had been eyeing for a bit. Went to Amazon but it was not loading the page correctly, so I went to company's website to look up specs and found out they had 10% off coupon & no taxes. So I purchased it from them.

    Wondering how much Amazon outages can actually increase revenues for smaller companies.

  • by tyingq on 6/13/22, 6:59 PM

    AWS us-east-1 had issues last Thursday also
  • by elaus on 6/13/22, 6:51 PM

    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.
  • by rasz on 6/13/22, 7:50 PM

    >“We’re sorry, an error has occurred. Please reload this page and try again.”

    seeing this exact message on reddit when trying to post

  • by antisthenes on 6/13/22, 9:14 PM

    First noticed it when it had vertical text alignment on the product pages a few hours ago across all browsers.
  • by mholt on 6/13/22, 6:56 PM

    Still down here in western US. Some product pages don't even show that error; they're just empty.
  • by GRBurst on 6/14/22, 2:35 PM

    It is strange that there is no statement from Amazon, yet. Or did I miss it?
  • by LinuxBender on 6/13/22, 7:19 PM

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

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

  • by dnadler on 6/13/22, 7:45 PM

    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.