Amazon.com is having major server issues

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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As a third-party seller, I wondered what was going on when my “Seller Central” page didn’t match up with my e-mails, where I get notifications of sales. Turns out there’s a major server outage that’s also affecting their streaming services, so if you use anything on Amazon and hit a roadblock, come back in a few hours and try it again.

I didn’t pit it because it doesn’t appear to be anyone’s fault. Some people are suggesting that they’re blocking 3p sellers so they can divert people to their own warehouses, but I disagree. Why would they cut into their own commissions, anyway?

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Amazon Web Services has been suffering issues all day – it’s affecting not only Amazon.com, but any company that uses their servers.

It doesn’t seem likely to be an intentional thing on Amazon’s part.

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The reddit forum for employees has posts about the outages, they’re affecting internal operations as well.

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Thanks for the heads up.

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At least from my perspective, it’s been resolved.

Some people have wondered if it’s because people wanted to get a leg up on Black Friday ordering, and the servers crashed, but I don’t think so.

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A friend of mine is a senior code developer for a shipping logistics company. I spoke with him this morning; he said that he was dealing with a number of their big clients yesterday, who use AWS for their web systems, who were having major problems.