{"id":10919,"date":"2025-08-27T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietleadershipcoach.com\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:27:22","slug":"coincidence-or-consequence-amazon-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehopkins.com\/vi\/coincidence-or-consequence-amazon-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Curious timing: coincidence or consequence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The internet has a funny sense of humour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I published yet another post about Amazon\u2019s failures\u2014naming names, quoting their managers, and pointing out how their \u201ccustomer-centric\u201d culture looks very different when you\u2019re actually a customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And wouldn\u2019t you know it? My website, vietleadershipcoach.com<\/em>, went down. Not my other sites. Not my hosting provider. Just the one where I\u2019ve been chronicling Amazon\u2019s Kafkaesque support carousel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, friends of mine who know the underbelly of the web tell me it was probably \u201cjust some Russian kiddie\u201d running a botnet for kicks. That\u2019s the most likely truth: random opportunistic vandalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let\u2019s be honest\u2014when your site goes dark within hours of publishing something that makes a $1.9 trillion company look incompetent, it raises an eyebrow or two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coincidence or consequence? You tell me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here\u2019s the kicker: the irony is that Amazon sells<\/em> cybersecurity services. They flog AI-powered tools that claim to detect sentiment, monitor risks, and protect customers. If their own executives are watching the dashboards light up red every time my emails and posts hit the wire, I can\u2019t imagine it makes for a comfortable morning report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So whether this was a bored teenager in Omsk or a convenient little \u201ctechnical hiccup\u201d elsewhere, the effect is the same: silence the story, if only until the morning meeting is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But here\u2019s the thing about silence\u2014it never lasts. The posts live on LinkedIn. They live on Substack. They live on Wayback Machine. They live in screenshots and archives and the inboxes of every Amazon manager I\u2019ve cc\u2019d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this was coincidence, it\u2019s funny timing. If it was consequence, it\u2019s clumsy. Either way, I\u2019m not going away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon likes to talk about resilience. So do veterans like me. The difference is, I mean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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