On the webstore, you will be facing the following message
“We’re sorry, an error has occurred. Please reload this page and try again.”<p>Moreover, multiple reports at
https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/<p>And on twitter and social media.
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.<p>Wondering how much Amazon outages can actually increase revenues for smaller companies.
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.
Could it be a coincidence that this occurred after John Oliver's report [1] on tech?<p>[1] - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXf04bhcjbg</a>
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...<p>Seems like I made the right choice!<p>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.