{"id":640813,"date":"2013-01-31T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=606347"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:58:35","slug":"amazon-is-down-yes-you-read-that-right-update-its-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640813","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is down; yes, you read that right (Update: it\u2019s back)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com&#8217;s web page is down and there is no explanation as to what is going on. Pinging the site for the last 15 minutes yielded an &#8220;Http\/1.1 Service Unavailable&#8221; message on an otherwise white screen.. The mobile app appeared to work fine and if users know which subsite they want, say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/browse\/-\/283155\">books<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?&#38;node=2858778011\">video<\/a> , they can get there by plugging in the appropriate URL.<\/p>\n<p>We have calls into the e-commerce giant and will update this story when we hear back. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5980618\/amazon-is-downhttp:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5980618\/amazon-is-down\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/em> was first to report on this at 11:25 p.m. PDT. As of 12:05 p.m. PDT, there were no indications of problems with<a href=\"http:\/\/status.aws.amazon.com\/\"> Amazon Web Services<\/a>\u00a0on the AWS status page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: As of 12:34 p.m. PDT, the main Amazon.com page was accessible again.<\/p>\n<p>Since the subsites appear to have worked all along, the inactive main page could be due to a DNS configuration issue, or as some have claimed on Twitter, a DDOS (distributed denial of servie) attack on the site, as reported by \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/betabeat.com\/2013\/01\/amazon-homepage-down-for-some-users-hackers-claim-responsibility\/\">BetaBeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been quite a few instances of <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2012\/12\/25\/christmas-eve-aws-outage-stings-netflix-but-not-amazon-prime\/\">Amazon Web Services glitches<\/a> over the past year, for the main site of the online store to disappear is quite a big deal, as evidenced by user reaction rippling through Twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2013\/01\/31\/fail-whale-surfaces-again-twitter-goes-down\/\">which had its own issues toda<\/a>y) and other outlets.<\/p>\n<p><del>Amazon has not yet responded to requests for comment.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Update: At 2:06 p.m. PDT \u00a0An Amazon spokesperson issued this comment via email:\u00a0\u201cThe gateway page of Amazon.com was offline to some customers for approximately 49 minutes.\u00a0 Other pages of the site were accessible and AWS was not impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was updated several times during the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=14960843&#038;%23038;post=606347&#038;%23038;subd=gigaom2&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?iu=\/1008864\/GigaOM_RSS_300x250&#038;sz=300x250&#038;%23038;c=286648\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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