Wow! Is Russia attacking Amazon today?

[ecstatic]

Every time I attempt to take a peek at the so called Prime Day sales, I see a cute puppy error message. Highly unusual. I've never seen the site so off it's game!

[anneboleyn]

1. Me too! Amazon has never had trouble like this -- error messages all day

[ecstatic]

7. Never! And I've done the last minute xmas, black Friday, etc. shopping

It sounds far fetched to think Russia might be involved, but I honestly can't put anything past trumputin, at this point.

The more troubling concern is, if true, Russia has way way WAY more control of our systems than most of us can imagine.

[anneboleyn]

16. I see some people dismissing this but this is exactly the kind of attack they relish. Trump hates

Bezos for all sorts of reasons (most significant? Bezos could “buy and sell him ten times over” to paraphrase a line from Wall Street), the Washington Post, andthe timing — the sort of thing Putin loves.

[obamanut2012]

17. This happens sporadically every Prime Day and every Black Friday

This is SOP.

[HipChick]

2. Yup...I've been getting those puppy errors too...

[anneboleyn]

10. Yep, the puppy errors -- I can't even look at the puppy pictures either to make myself feel better.

Amazon has never had trouble like this in my experience (and we’ve been shopping there since the 90s — when Amazon was still a bookstore!)

Given the timing it is creepy as hell. I’ve noticed some other big sites having trouble as well.

[JDC]

3. Me too. I think overload is probabaly the culprit.

[C_U_L8R]

4. A Russian hack would not surprise

Quid pro quo.

[aquamarina]

5. Maybe this is Trump's reward for today's summit.

Trump hates Jeff Bezos...

[anneboleyn]

11. MTE -- Bezos and the Washington Post

[Achilleaze]

6. Did republican Dirty Donny* put the russians up to this?

to make life shitty for Jeff Bezos - who Dirty Donny hates, because he is an actual successful businessman? Would not be surprised.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[PoliticAverse]

8. A highly promoted "one day" Internet event resulting in overloaded servers?! Unpossible! n/t

[anneboleyn]

13. Yeah, not at Amazon. They also have prime sales that get huge amounts of traffic and I have

never seen the site this “buggy” before. We have shopped there every week for years and have been prime customers for years.

[HipChick]

15. Agree...

[PoliticAverse]

18. Did you miss the times that the whole of Amazon services (inclusing AWS) actually went down

for hours? (For example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/28/amazons-cloud-service-goes-down-sites-scramble/98530914/ ). Things break especially at times of hard to predict extreme usage.

[llmart]

25. Reminds me of...

DU going down on election night.

[lpbk2713]

9. I went to Amazon twice this afternoon.

About an hour apart. Didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Maybe was timing was just right.

[anneboleyn]

12. I go there almost everyday. Today has been highly, highly unusual. They have had many prime sales

in the past and we have never had this sort of trouble.

[Control-Z]

14. I just clicked over there.

No problem. But I wouldn't put it past Trump asking Putin for that favor - to mess with Amazon. Such a jealous little man.

[smirkymonkey]

19. I'm getting the same thing when I try to pull up a movie.

Except I get a cute little Corgi like the one I am babysitting.

[displacedtexan]

20. I kept getting a loop from the main page to the... main page with every click.

Finally, I went in through my shopping cart and used the search box. It worked just fine that way.

[ecstatic]

22. I'm not making any purchases until this is 100% under control.

I don't want any third parties intercepting my purchase / credit card info.

[Leghorn21]

21. Bloomberg article:

Trouble on the site spiked just as the event began at 3 p.m. Eastern time, but had declined significantly within a couple of hours, according to Downdetector.com, which monitors web trouble. Shoppers were expected to spend $3.4 billion on the site during the event, up more than 40 percent from a year earlier, according to Coresight Research.

Amazon said on Twitter that “some customers are having difficulty shopping, and we’re working to resolve this issue quickly,” although “many are shopping successfully.” The company’s stock closed at $1,822.49, but slid about 1.5 percent in extended trading in New York.

“I’m candidly shocked that they’re not prepared for the traffic,” Forrester analyst Sucharita Kodali said. “Unless this is way beyond their wildest expectations, it’s just odd.”

As of Monday afternoon, there were 4,670 social media posts about the Prime Day crash. Eighty percent of online sentiment about Prime Day conveyed anger or sadness, according to Crimson Hexagon, which monitors social-media feedback.

more:
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-07-16/amazon-site-crashes-on-prime-day-threatening-3-4-billion-haul?__twitter_impression=true



Also, “PrimeDay” is trending at #1, just ahead of Maria Butina:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23PrimeDay

[Sedona]

23. Me too?

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[PoliticAverse]

24. Cnet article on the Amazon prime day issues...

https://www.cnet.com/news/its-not-just-you-amazon-appears-to-be-down-on-prime-day/