Interesting. I did get the main Amazon page in 1 out of about 5 tries, but then when I went to search for something, I got the HTTP error each time. Looks like a pretty serious outage if Amazon is unavailable for 15 minutes. How many data centers must they have? How many racks of servers? How many redundant Internet connections, UPS backups and generators? If Amazon can't stay up, something is pretty wrong. Could be a DoS attack, I guess. SW
Here are a couple of news reports. The availability graph in the first one is interesting. Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday This article does not support my theory of a DoS attack. Amazon isn't being too specific, however. Amazon working again, but what went wrong? SW