It appears that the UK domain for online retailer Amazon is down. With reports all over Twitter and confirmed by TNW personally, the site does not appear to be responding regardless of the location from which you’re trying to access it.
See also: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997973" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997973</a><p>Interesting watching everyone immediately crediting 'Anonymous'/Operation Payback for this one...
AWS's services in Europe (Dublin, Ireland) seem to be having latency problems:<p><a href="http://status.aws.amazon.com/#EU_block" rel="nofollow">http://status.aws.amazon.com/#EU_block</a>
Does anyone know how much traffic Anons botnets could generate? Surely it would be nowhere near enough to have any kind of impact on Amazon's cloud infrastructure..<p>Must be because of something else such as human error and just really bad timing?