The Amazon UK website is currently, and has been for the last 20 minutes, serving a single page that reads,
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
I dread to imagine just how much business they’re losing in the time that they’re down. For any business that expects to be turning over $10.675 billion of revenue in 2006, any significant amount of downtime during the peak retail period is going to worth more than a few pennies.
It’s not the first time Amazon UK has gone AWOL and I’ll bet there won’t be whisperings of sweet nothings into the ears of the IT management tomorrow morning.
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