Amazon Black Friday Sale (11/21 to 11/29)

[Brad]

Shop the sale: https://www.amazon.com/blackfriday

 

Press release: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/amazon-black-friday-deals-when

[Brad]

Sale starts tonight at midnight PST. From the spreadsheet they sent us, I'd say 90% of the deals will start tonight with the rest scattered over the next 8 days.

[bribri25]

2 hours ago, Brad said:

Sale starts tonight at midnight PST. From the spreadsheet they sent us, I'd say 90% of the deals will start tonight with the rest scattered over the next 8 days.

Spreadsheet, you say?

[vern28]

Right....I hope we get to see the spreadsheet lol

[Gator Pam]

A question out of ignorance.

 

I understand Amazon has servers all over the world, so the major power outage here in the Puget Sound area due to the bomb cyclone which passed through yesterday will not affect the sale going live? Since Amazon headquarters is in Seattle?

[Kanyon71]

50 minutes ago, Gator Pam said:

A question out of ignorance.

 

I understand Amazon has servers all over the world, so the major power outage here in the Puget Sound area due to the bomb cyclone which passed through yesterday will not affect the sale going live? Since Amazon headquarters is in Seattle?

No they are cloud based. One region goes down that traffic is instantly rerouted to another region. 
 

That said data centers have massive power generation systems that can last days to weeks generating more than enough power to keep the DC online.