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| Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:09 am Post subject: Five Amazon European sites go down briefly on Sunday |
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Five Amazon.com sites that serve European customers experienced an outage on Sunday evening. Amazon representatives say a hardware failure at its data center caused the outage, not attacks from web activists.
The sites were unavailable for about a half hour starting at about 3:15 p.m. Central time in the United States, according to Netcraft, an Internet security firm that monitors web site performance. Amazon says there were problems for nearly two hours starting at 2:37 p.m. Central. The sites affected serve customers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Austria.
The outage did not stem from a distributed denial of service attack, such as those organized in the past week by supporters of Wikileaks, Amazon says. A distributed denial of service attack, or DDOS, attempts to intentionally overload a web site with so many requests that the site stops working and involves many computers acting in concert. “The brief interruption to our European retail sites last night was due to hardware failure in our European datacenter network and not the result of a DDOS attempt,” an Amazon spokeswoman says.
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