After Google, it was leading online shopping site ‘Amazon’ that fall prey to the technical glitch that resulted in non-accessibility of the website for around an hour.
When shopping enthusiasts clicked on the link of amazon.com to scroll what’s new on the shopping portal, they found technical difficulties and the server down for more than 45 minutes. The webpage went offline around 1 p.m. Estimates differ on exactly how long Amazon was offline: Some reports have it at 15 minutes, 25 minutes, 40 minutes, and 45 minutes However, the reason for the technical flaw is yet to be clarified by the website.
According to the reports, Amazon’s UK site was not affected by the glitch but its Canadian home page also showed an error message.
The company’s average sales is around $117,882 per minute. If the website continued to be offline for 40-long-minutes then the outage could have cost the firm as much as $4.72 million loss, the Puget Sound Business Journal estimates says.
It seems the websites going offline is becoming a trend now. In the recent past a host of websites including search engine giant Google, Microsoft’s Outlook.com, leading US daily portal New York Times and few others suffered a black out on different occasions.
Google faced a two-minute downtime on Friday that affected the firm’s main search page as well as its Gmail email service, YouTube video site and Drive storage product. Microsoft’s Outlook.com faced a three-day-long disruption.
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When shopping enthusiasts clicked on the link of amazon.com to scroll what’s new on the shopping portal, they found technical difficulties and the server down for more than 45 minutes. The webpage went offline around 1 p.m. Estimates differ on exactly how long Amazon was offline: Some reports have it at 15 minutes, 25 minutes, 40 minutes, and 45 minutes However, the reason for the technical flaw is yet to be clarified by the website.
According to the reports, Amazon’s UK site was not affected by the glitch but its Canadian home page also showed an error message.
The company’s average sales is around $117,882 per minute. If the website continued to be offline for 40-long-minutes then the outage could have cost the firm as much as $4.72 million loss, the Puget Sound Business Journal estimates says.
It seems the websites going offline is becoming a trend now. In the recent past a host of websites including search engine giant Google, Microsoft’s Outlook.com, leading US daily portal New York Times and few others suffered a black out on different occasions.
Google faced a two-minute downtime on Friday that affected the firm’s main search page as well as its Gmail email service, YouTube video site and Drive storage product. Microsoft’s Outlook.com faced a three-day-long disruption.
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