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Amazon.com and its app are currently broken
- bombtrack 5y agoBeen waiting for someone to bring this up. Seems very widespread. https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/ https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
- byoung2 5y agowow it is definitely broken for any product I try. I can only imagine the amount of money they are losing per minute.
- covidthrow 5y agoBased on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
- manquer 5y agoAbout a 3 quarters of a million a minute in revenue though. They roughly do a billion in sales every day in e-commerce m
- alephu5 5y agoThey only really care about share prices and those haven't been affected.
- ElViajero 5y agoEach time it gets more one sided: efficiency VS robustness. The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services. When I was a kid, if one of the neighborhood shops had to close the rest were open. Only a power outage would make many shops stop operating, but many others will work on only-cash and it would be a minor inconvenience. But this neighborhood shops could not operate at international level, nor make its owner the richest person on Earth. In a not so distant future we are going to have to choose between mega-corporations that can crash the economy or smaller companies that are subject to the evolution pressure of capitalism. I hope that taxation is increased globally. That would be the equivalent of reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. And as gigantic animals cannot live in a less oxygen-rich Earth, big corporations cannot live without tax-cuts and special deals with city governments.
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- mech422 5y agoHeh..and I just yelled at my alexa for making me repeat myself.. Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P
- perryizgr8 5y agoAmazon.in also has the same problem. I always thought they would have separated their regional websites from each other.
- rootsu 5y agoI think it's recovering now.
- gexla 5y agoPaging Jeff Bezos. We need you to get to the office. We have a slight problem. I may have pushed the wrong button.
- byoung2 5y agoJeff stepped down, and now this happens...I bet he will be back in the office on Monday!
- jms703 5y agoJeff is the only person that can fix this?
- t0 5y agoJeff would fix this by sending out a couple of emails containing only a single character: ? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dread-the-question-mark-email-from-jeff-bezos/RRT46ANDST3WPYJ5NW5T4WNM7M/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...
- whoomp12342 5y agosorry bro, stuck in space with branson. suck it poor people
- imwillofficial 5y agoI am SUPER interested in what problem could be big enough to cause this world-wide
- appwiz 5y agoI’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like if user == ‘jeff bezos ’ that needs to be updated to if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’) Pseudo code above. Could be the userids, usernames, internal aliases, levels, etc. This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.
- moneywoes 5y agoCould that realistically be the culprit? Sounds insane