Amazon.com and its app are currently broken(twitter.com)
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Amazon.com and its app are currently broken
https://twitter.com/DRLynam/status/1414417662533271552
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Paging Jeff Bezos. We need you to get to the office. We have a slight problem. I may have pushed the wrong button.
sorry bro, stuck in space with branson. suck it poor people
Jeff stepped down, and now this happens...I bet he will be back in the office on Monday!
Jeff is the only person that can fix this?
Jeff would fix this by sending out a couple of emails containing only a single character: ?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...
Been waiting for someone to bring this up. Seems very widespread.
https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/
Each time it gets more one sided: efficiency VS robustness.
The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services.
When I was a kid, if one of the neighborhood shops had to close the rest were open. Only a power outage would make many shops stop operating, but many others will work on only-cash and it would be a minor inconvenience.
But this neighborhood shops could not operate at international level, nor make its owner the richest person on Earth.
In a not so distant future we are going to have to choose between mega-corporations that can crash the economy or smaller companies that are subject to the evolution pressure of capitalism.
I hope that taxation is increased globally. That would be the equivalent of reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. And as gigantic animals cannot live in a less oxygen-rich Earth, big corporations cannot live without tax-cuts and special deals with city governments.
The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services.
When I was a kid, if one of the neighborhood shops had to close the rest were open. Only a power outage would make many shops stop operating, but many others will work on only-cash and it would be a minor inconvenience.
But this neighborhood shops could not operate at international level, nor make its owner the richest person on Earth.
In a not so distant future we are going to have to choose between mega-corporations that can crash the economy or smaller companies that are subject to the evolution pressure of capitalism.
I hope that taxation is increased globally. That would be the equivalent of reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. And as gigantic animals cannot live in a less oxygen-rich Earth, big corporations cannot live without tax-cuts and special deals with city governments.
wow it is definitely broken for any product I try. I can only imagine the amount of money they are losing per minute.
Based on 2020, about $45,000 profit per minute.
About a 3 quarters of a million a minute in revenue though. They roughly do a billion in sales every day in e-commerce m
They only really care about share prices and those haven't been affected.
I am SUPER interested in what problem could be big enough to cause this world-wide
I’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like
This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.
if user == ‘jeff bezos ’
if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)
This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.
Could that realistically be the culprit? Sounds insane
Amazon.in also has the same problem. I always thought they would have separated their regional websites from each other.
I think it's recovering now.
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Heh..and I just yelled at my alexa for making me repeat myself..
Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P
Maybe she was trying to fix amaon.com :-P