What happened on prime day?

It seems that the amazon site was having lots of issues when prime day started, anyone can give us some insights on what was going on?

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Oscar tc/gtfo Jul 16, 2018

Buffer underflow, using NodeJs and running on JBoss.

Amazon roy Jul 16, 2018

Email jeff@amazon.com about this. He will surely sort things out

Amazon gemalto Jul 16, 2018

This is what happens when we disagree and commit.

Nvidia doubletake Jul 16, 2018

Lol

Stitch Fix Stitched Jul 16, 2018

Core data service not scaled enough.

Dell $5.99 Jul 16, 2018

They created a Prime Day index and routed both browse and search queries to it. The DB couldn't handle it. Try using Prime Day department while searching and you'll still see it failing. For major keywords they now route you to the full index

RBC kdm1900 Jul 17, 2018

How was this not on a service that auto scales and was warmed up prior to start?

Dell $5.99 Jul 17, 2018

They did that

Zulily 🐕dog Jul 23, 2018

No meaningful comments on this by any amazon folks !!