Amazon.com Down

"Amazon" by Seattlest Flickr contributor, Aaron Morris

If you wanted to buy a few books, a used movie, a car, and a new outfit all in one place—right this very moment—well, you're out of luck. Amazon.com, the internet's purveyor of everything, seems to have crashed. The New York Times is reporting the site failure is an "unplanned event" that had already been happening for an hour when they posted at 10:37 PST. A check-in on Amazon at noon finds the same error message. We've questioned our friends who work at Amazon about the site's troubles, but we figure they are otherwise occupied with figuring this thing out and trying to keep their heads from exploding.

Update: As of 12:45, Amazon.com is back up and running. When we hear the official cause of this morning's site failure, you all will be the first to know.

Update 2: Oh, the intrigue! Seattlest just got a one-line tip on Amazon's site failure. It read: "It's a DDoS attack at the US retail website." Can anyone confirm or deny this?