elegantprofiles.com— If Amazon cannot handle a traffic spike like the Xbox 360 deal, does it give confidence for its EC2 Elastic Computing Cloud offering?
Nov 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
Complete total SCAM. I doubt there where ANY units for sale. The site wouldn't even come up for myself and a few friends on FAST connections for at least 10 minutes. Amazon.com main page didn't even show 3 minutes before the deal went live. I call BS.
Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I got one, and it showed up the very same way, once you click futher, there's an option to take the 199 off.....sucks if you didn't click through!
Amazon should know bettter. We all knew this was going to be much like a DOS attack. After much exposure in media, there were going to be thousands if not tens of thousands of people with multiple browser windows attacking the site at 11:00am PST sharp. Routing such a high load service to the main site is simply stupid. I sure hope Amazon lost tens of thousands of dollars in the 5 mins when the entire site was dog slow. Better yet, they probably should have given out those deal codes to the first 1000 people who voted on XBox 360 deal anyways. It's only fair, right?
Ahhh another person who thinks Google is God. Last I heard Akamai is THE load balancing service to use, not Google. Google (not sure if they still do), Yahoo, Microsoft and CNN all use Akamai load balancing to name a few of their big clients.
I tried getting one and it was impossible. I figured that the site would be slow so i hit refresh at 10:57 in the hopes that it would be done at 11:00. It was at 11:00 maybe 10seconds into it and all 1000 were already sold out. I'm guessing this was an issue with my clock or there were just that many people trying to take advantage of the offer.Amazon should have known about this spike and devoted some more servers to it. They probably didn't however because they don't want people clicking like mad on the refresh button and causing more problems for the whole site. This way it seems like the site was just experiencing problems for a few minutes. I just hope this isn't a sign of a repeat Christmas disaster we had a few years back.
Closed AccountNov 24, 2006
Complete total SCAM. I doubt there where ANY units for sale. The site wouldn't even come up for myself and a few friends on FAST connections for at least 10 minutes. Amazon.com main page didn't even show 3 minutes before the deal went live. I call BS.
shickeyNov 24, 2006
Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I got one, and it showed up the very same way, once you click futher, there's an option to take the 199 off.....sucks if you didn't click through!
ryosNov 24, 2006
Amazon should know bettter. We all knew this was going to be much like a DOS attack. After much exposure in media, there were going to be thousands if not tens of thousands of people with multiple browser windows attacking the site at 11:00am PST sharp. Routing such a high load service to the main site is simply stupid. I sure hope Amazon lost tens of thousands of dollars in the 5 mins when the entire site was dog slow. Better yet, they probably should have given out those deal codes to the first 1000 people who voted on XBox 360 deal anyways. It's only fair, right?
wildthingNov 24, 2006
Ahhh another person who thinks Google is God. Last I heard Akamai is THE load balancing service to use, not Google. Google (not sure if they still do), Yahoo, Microsoft and CNN all use Akamai load balancing to name a few of their big clients.
bingeboyNov 24, 2006
I placed a order at 11pst on the dot and I was charged for a 300 sys I was very upset. Way to ruin a great thanksgiving god! Thanks Amazon you jerks.
trohilNov 24, 2006
I couldn't even navigate the site because it was so slammed.
carzorstelatisNov 27, 2006
EC2? They do realise that's the same number of characters as doing the full abbreviation (ECC)? What a completely stupid name.
carzorstelatisNov 27, 2006
Bury. Dupe comment.
larshinNov 28, 2006
I tried getting one and it was impossible. I figured that the site would be slow so i hit refresh at 10:57 in the hopes that it would be done at 11:00. It was at 11:00 maybe 10seconds into it and all 1000 were already sold out. I'm guessing this was an issue with my clock or there were just that many people trying to take advantage of the offer.Amazon should have known about this spike and devoted some more servers to it. They probably didn't however because they don't want people clicking like mad on the refresh button and causing more problems for the whole site. This way it seems like the site was just experiencing problems for a few minutes. I just hope this isn't a sign of a repeat Christmas disaster we had a few years back.