Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages?

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages? by runjake on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:04PM (#45649372)

It was impacted. Amazon.com was unusable for me this morning. All I could get loaded was the header section and a blank page saying "Something went wrong."

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages? by binsquare on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:54PM (#45649909)

Same here, couldn't add things to cart or see the prices for a lot of things.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Amazon.com impacted by AWS outages? by bigmutant on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:14AM (#45652424)

DynamoDB is used *everywhere* in AMZN Retail, this is absolutely not surprising. Plus the vast majority of internal Services are using EC2 in the form of Apollo/ECS. So OP probably hit some parts of the site that are hosted in us-west-2. For all I know they started routing all requests for us-east-1 traffic to other DCs, figuring latency is a fine trade-off for availability

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