Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages?

5•trevoragilbert•2h ago

I've noticed over the years whenever there's an AWS outage, Amazon.com doesn't seem to be impacted. My assumption is that they'd be one of the first to go down. Any idea why?

Comments

walterbell•2h ago

Some functions were down, e.g. order history.

PaulHoule•2h ago

I was having trouble with the store this morning.

smartician•2h ago

Multi-region failover?

ibejoeb•1h ago

No idea if it's related, but this is the first time I've seen "We're sorry, Customer Service chat and phone lines are not currently available at the moment."

I've been getting message all morning about delivery delays. All were supposed to be delivered today and now they're anywhere between tomorrow and thursday.

runjake•1h ago

It was impacted. Amazon.com was unusable for me this morning. All I could get loaded was the header section and a blank page saying "Something went wrong."

binsquare•13m ago

Same here, couldn't add things to cart or see the prices for a lot of things.

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