Amazon is Down

It appears that Amazon is having some issues. Their site has been down for well over an hour now. I can’t imagine how much money this kind of downtime has on a company as large as Amazon. Maybe in the millions by now.

This screen shot was grabbed at approximately 12:10PM PST on 06 June 2008. About 30 minutes ago I was simply getting a “HTTP/1.1 Service Unavailable.”

Update: I did manage to get the home page at about 12:22PM PST, but after clicking a link, I get the same “We’re Sorry!” page.

Techcrunch has a post on it as well with a note from Amazon PR (if you can call it a note).

Update #2: Cnet speculates Amazon could potentially have missed out on close to $1.4M USD in the 90 or so minutes they were offline.

Based on last quarter’s revenue of $4.13 billion globally, a full-scale global outage would cost Amazon more than $31,000 per minute on average. For North America, it would be more than $16,000 per minute. (To be fair, those figures don’t include revenue from other sources such as search or contextual advertisements or Amazon Web Services.)

I feel bad for the poor schmucks who had to sweat this one out.