A Thanksgiving day promotion resulted in an outage for Amazon.com.  The entire site, not just the promotion page, buckled under the pressure after offering 1,000 Xbox 360s for just $100.00.

Amazon ran a special promotion this week but under-estimated the demand for the product from users with fast connections. At exactly 2pm EST, the offer was open (an Xbox core system at less than half-price). Unfortunately for Amazon, so many people were waiting for the promotion that the entire Amazon website - not just the promotion page - sank without a trace from just before 2pm, to at least 2:12pm. The home page, the product pages, everything, were unavailable.