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What happened to Amazon’s website?


June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

The world's largest online retailer has kept quiet on exactly what caused the site to go down for two hours last Friday, with troubles continuing on Monday.The world’s largest online retailer has kept quiet on exactly what caused the site to go down for two hours last Friday, with troubles continuing on Monday.

Amazon’s site went down originally at around 1:30 p.m. EDT on Friday for around 2-hours.

Customers received a page with an error code when trying to access the site.

Amazon continued to have problems functioning right up until Monday when more problems persisted with customers not being able to access the site.

Amazon has not stated why these problems took place, but answers are likely soon.

The most likely reason was human error, and it could have cost Amazon millions.

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