Amazon.com and its app are currently broken

Jeff stepped down, and now this happens...I bet he will be back in the office on Monday!

sorry bro, stuck in space with branson. suck it poor people

wow it is definitely broken for any product I try. I can only imagine the amount of money they are losing per minute.

Each time it gets more one sided: efficiency VS robustness.

The more heterogeneous a system is the better it scales. But errors spread fast as most of the system depends on a very small set of services.

When I was a kid, if one of the neighborhood shops had to close the rest were open. Only a power outage would make many shops stop operating, but many others will work on only-cash and it would be a minor inconvenience.

But this neighborhood shops could not operate at international level, nor make its owner the richest person on Earth.

In a not so distant future we are going to have to choose between mega-corporations that can crash the economy or smaller companies that are subject to the evolution pressure of capitalism.

I hope that taxation is increased globally. That would be the equivalent of reducing the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. And as gigantic animals cannot live in a less oxygen-rich Earth, big corporations cannot live without tax-cuts and special deals with city governments.

I’d guess there’s a statement in the source code somewhere like

  if user == ‘jeff bezos ’

that needs to be updated to

  if user in (‘jeff bezos’, ‘andy jassy’)

Pseudo code above. Could be the userids, usernames, internal aliases, levels, etc.

This is first time an Amazon CEO has changed so infrequently used code paths are going to be exercised.

I think it's recovering now.