can not determine the downtime reasons, but may have been a denial of service attack.
February 1, according to foreign media reports, Amazon Home Today downtime situation, a large number of users can not access the site in time up to 45 minutes. During the 45-minute period, when many users access the Amazon home page, this site is always an approximation blank page that says "Http/1.1 service can not be displayed.
View the Amazon downtime during cURL found to the Amazon Home return to the "503 error status, the results support the Amazon website server maintenance or overloading a short period of downtime phenomenon. However, Amazon's internal links are still valid, but the speed seems to be a lot slower. At the same time, the Amazon AWS cloud computing services products has been kept clear.
"503 error" may be the result of "denial of service attacks", despite not yet clear whether this.
The downtime was initially by the computer hacker social news sites, and start-up companies "Hacker News" writer Natan Baxiao, (Nathan Bashaw) found in the U.S. Pacific time Thursday 11:40. There is no doubt that such a large-scale site like Amazon for more than 40 minutes of downtime is indeed unusual.
However, in the U.S. Pacific time Thursday 12:25, the Amazon site's home page has begun to return to normal. Currently, Amazon aspects are not yet on the matter issued a formal opinion.