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Could this month get any better for Amazon?

-It's December

-Mastercard.com and Paypal.com went down making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments

-Since no Amazon service went down under DDoS, big companies will come crawling to them to use AWS

-SimpleCDN goes down, no doubt driving lots of customers to bigger parties like AWS

-They are making boat loads of money http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=AMZN+vs+GS+vs+GOOG

Boycott? Pfff. I predict record revenues.

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"... making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments" is a huge overstatement. Mastercard.com and Visa.com being down has no material effect on almost all eCommerce (I don't remember the last time I had visited either). PayPal does, but that affects Amazon as well since they accept PayPal at places like Zappos and Diapers.com.

both visa and mastercard had their payment processing servers down along with their websites.

Well I was able to process payments just fine for both during the DDOS...

oh really? I spoke to someone who was unable to process payments and I saw a lot of people reporting it. Maybe it was isolated due to location? The people reporting it I saw were in the UK.

Hearsay, but I read it was a Mastercard problem limited specifically to the UK.

It was a relatively isolated problem in some parts of the UK I think (I was able to buy stuff during the supposed outage over here).

I'll vouch for that. We had no issues at all. Ran a lot of transactions throughout the period as well.

"They are making boat loads of money http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=AMZN+vs+GS+vs+GOOG "

I'm not sure what the point of comparing Amazon to Goldman and Google, as the latter two are way more profitable than Amazon is. Is the comparison to show that they're in the same league as these two companies, or are you just looking at the stock price alone?

Mostly revenue / employee, stock price.

Bezos' lack of interest in profit is well-known, e.g. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_46/b4009001.... (2006).

Does mastercard.com process payments? I got the impression that it was just the marketing/corporate presence that was affected.

Securecode was affected as well, which is the payment portal you need to go through for many on-line shops.

I guess it didn't affect everyone since I was able to use it on the day in question to make a Ticketmaster purchase on 12/8.

Securecode is theoretically optional in most cases, transactions that go through it generally cost less than non-securecode ones but it shouldn't stop all transaction processing in most cases.

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