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Amazon Homepage is Down
- surye 8y agoJust the home page it seems, deep links and searches working for me.
- huangc10 8y agoedited
- loxias 8y agoBoy, I can't wait to read the post mortem on this one.
- huangc10 8y agoJust the homepage being down makes me think the entire site is down, but as another user pointed out, you can still search and links work. I wonder if checkout works. Can anyone confirm?
- AH4oFVbPT4f8 8y agoCheckout works, you just have to search for the item and once you're off the homepage everything is normal.
- loxias 8y agoThanks for confirming. I was curious too, but all the small purchases I have are "Add on items" ;-)
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- brad0 8y agoLooks like just the desktop homepage is down. Mobile works. Detail and search works.
- blat001 8y agoThis has to be costing Amazon a fortune at the moment
- AH4oFVbPT4f8 8y agoBetter today than Monday. Using numbers from 2013, Amazon makes $2000 per second, down for 30 minutes = 3.6M Edited: per hour to per second
- Waterluvian 8y agoPer hour? Do you mean per second?
- AH4oFVbPT4f8 8y agoGood catch, you're correct it's per second not per hour.
- gowld 8y agoThat's only true if people bounced of a broken homepage completely cancel their purchase, instead of waiting 10 minutes. Most stores close overnight. They wouldn't double revenue if they opened overnight.
- chillee 8y agoI'm really curious how much this actually causes Amazon's revenue to drop. You can still buy things and search, but consumers are probably going to be put off by the home page message. EDIT: And now it's back up.
- brad0 8y agoamazon.com desktop homepage is back up for me! EDIT: Though it looks quite minimal, there's very little content showing on the front page. Three rows of content.
- 1996 8y agoSmall e-commerce companies should really use cloudfront for their homepage!
- mchahn 8y agoFWIW: I wouldn't notice since my bookmark goes directly to my orders page. I never see the home page. I also never see the home page of google or github.
- mandeepj 8y ago> I also never see the home page of google What do you see instead?
- earenndil 8y agoIDK about github, but for google I generally just type stuff into the search bar and press enter. When do you see the homepage of google?
- mchahn 8y agoDitto. Github goes out of their way to not show you a home page. If your cookies are logged in then going to github.com takes you directly to your personal page.