Amazon Down Again A company that monitors web performance, Keynote, reported that Amazon’s site “suffered sporadic outages” again yesterday lasting for at least an hour. The company says “probes also found problems with the British Amazon.co.uk site, but other country-specific sites appeared to be functioning, Keynote’s automated probes were able to reach the main Amazon.com site as little as 30 percent of the time. Even when the monitors did reach the site, they faced delays.” The Register cites “speculation that it was under a denial of service attack.” They note that “Friday’s outage coincided with a sustained attack on the […]
