Another article I found.
http://www.appscout.com/2008/06/rumor_amazon_hit_with_denialof.php
Rumor: Amazon Hit With Denial-of-Service Attack, Again
Amazon.com was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service attack that struck the Web site's load-balancing system, according to a rumor that's begun circulating among security professionals.
According to a security professional who said he'd been in contact with one of Amazon's business-continuity executives, the DDoS attack bypassed AWS services like Amazon's S3, striking directly at the heart of Amazon's business. It's unclear how Amazon fought off the attack, which struck roughly at 10:20 AM, according to reports.
According to the rumor, the load balancing fleet at Amazon is supposedly rated to handle a 'Black Friday" or "Cyber Tuesday" load, or the peak traffic the company should expect all year. The security professional suspected that Amazon had increased that traffic estimated by about 20 percent versus last year, meaning that the massive amount of connections had to be made to bring the site completely offline. Amazon.co.uk remained online.
Supposedly some ISPs are suffering slower service thanks to the botnet attack, but which are unknown at the moment.
Eight years ago a DDoS attack took down Amazon.com, as well as Buy.com and some others.
Incidentally, an outside representative for Amazon said that she doubts that the company will comment at the moment.
