Amazon.com Is Down

[khaledh]

http://amazon.com

[ColinWright]

Primary discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23341170

[khaledh → ColinWright]

my bad, didn't see it

[Rallerbabs]

Just when you think you've seen it all.

[ncw96]

Looks like they're having issues with DNS on www.amazon.com

[mrwnmonm]

You know, I never thought about the people who run the servers in general, unfortunately, they can't work remotely. Without them, we will suffer boredom to death in our homes.

[gticala]

amazon.ca is working.

[aficiomaquinas]

I wonder how many millions of revenue Amazon loses per minute of downtime, specifically the revenue that won't come back once the website is back online.

[mandeepj → aficiomaquinas]

Do you think people would go somewhere else in those few mins, find a product, add to cart, insert CC info, address ?

[MR4D → mandeepj]

Here's my decision tree:

1. If it is groceries and I have multiple accounts set up already, then yes.

2. If it is something else that I want quickly and I have another account already set up somewhere else, then yes.

3. If I don't have accounts set up anywhere but Amazon, then no.

4. If I don't need it quickly, then no.

[2hands1mouse → aficiomaquinas]

approximately $200k per minute