Amazon was down(amazon.com) |
Amazon was down(amazon.com) |
The retail market in the USA can be accurately summarized as "slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle slow trickle MASSIVE DELUGE OMG OMG slow trickle slow trickle..."
It would shock people how much consumer spending is shoved into the November-December time frame. Since this downtime is in the middle of May, I don't expect them to lose much money at all.
Those are four very different numbers.
Proxy down?
Downtime is a Big Deal during the high retail season, and not really a big deal outside of it.
And sure, there's some elasticity, but an approximation is handy.
It's one line of text.
Edit: Downvoted? Really? For showing appreciation for a link?
In general Amazon.com makes extensive use of AWS services internally as well, but it's very well architected to handle service outages without it being immediately obvious to the end user.
What i didn't realize was that jokes about Amazon being somewhat slow and cryptic with information about outages while they're happening were off-limits.