Amazon suffered intermittent outages yesterday and into today with their platform, and theories run amuck, from DDoS to their new video platform causing issues, the point here is that no one over at Amazon is really saying what the issues are, or what is really happening. When you provide the back end infrastructure and the front end infrastructure, we all want to know.
The problematic thing here is the transparency issue; if it really was a DDoS they could milk this puppy for all the PR marketing spin on the face of the planet and come out stronger. If it was the video delivery system that they launched, and then we also understand and be forgiving of that too, hey live and learn. If it was a bad upgrade that caused issue, then we could all commiserate, all of us have at some point gone through an upgrade that caused us down time.
The real issue is the cloud of darkness that seems to have descended on the entire system, no one knows for sure leading to rampant speculation of what the problem is, and what is being done (if anything) about whatever the problem is. That is the buggy issue of the day, no one outside the company knows why for sure, we all speculate, some theories are better than others, and what we do know is that Amazon is being buggy, meaning lost sales, lost consumers, and a small bit of annoyance from the 3rd party sellers.
Probably not what they want today.
Tags: amazon, outage, buggy, conspiracy theory, who knows, silence, ddos
