They should really switch to a cloud hosting provider.
Yeah, if they had servers in house they could fix this issue easier.
About 1/2 of the time I refresh the amazon.com homepage I get an error, and searching for anything from the homepage results in this error...
I've only seen the issue related to search, but have seen increased page load time for other parts of the site.
Works for me (from Europe). Must be the troubled US-East-1 region or the problem has been fixed already.
Search is down. But it constitutes the majority of user interaction.
You wouldn't expect that given how little emphasis there is on the front page of amazon for search. They don't even default your cursor into the search box!!
Well, search is the obvious answer if you have a question, whether it may be Google or Amazon.