Sellers' orders dropped sharply! A large-scale Internet outage suddenly occurred in the United States!

Today, many foreign media reported that the East Coast of the United States experienced a large-scale Internet outage in the early morning, and the network services of many companies including Amazon, Google, and YouTube were affected!

According to detection data, starting from early this morning (around 11 a.m. Eastern Time), Internet outages occurred in multiple areas on the East Coast, and the outages reached their peak a few hours later. The entire northeastern United States from Virginia to Massachusetts experienced varying degrees of network outages. The most serious areas were along the East Coast from Boston to New York and around Washington, D.C.

This problem is quite serious. This area is the most densely populated area on the East Coast, and also includes many US government services and financial companies. The consequences of the network outage are disastrous! Major Internet companies have urgently checked the cause of the network outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) also issued a notice stating that the AWS monitoring dashboard showed normal and no internal problems that may have caused the network outage were found after investigation.

Subsequently, Internet infrastructure service provider and US telecommunications giant Verizon announced that it was responsible for the outage, as the unexpected cause caused the interruption of Verizon's network service Fios, which may have affected millions of US users of the service. As of 1 p.m. Eastern, network services have begun to be restored , but Verizon has not yet announced the specific situation.

An Internet monitoring company said that the outage caused at least a 12% drop in Internet access provided by Verizon. Because the nature of the outage was very special, many families would be unable to connect only when visiting specific websites, including Amazon and Google mentioned above. If they visited other websites, they could still access the Internet, so some ordinary users did not even notice that they were disconnected.

Also, because the Internet outage occurred on the basic network side of the United States, we sellers could not detect the outage even when using tools to access the Internet. We could only see that the number of orders inexplicably decreased. Some sellers believed that it was caused by the lag in Amazon data, but they did not expect that the number of orders really decreased.

This interruption is not only a loss for sellers, but also a real traffic interruption for Amazon, which has just won the title of "America's Most Popular Grocery Store."

Amazon beat HEB and Trader Joe's to become the nation's most popular grocery retailer in the fourth quarter of last year, according to new research from Dunnumby, with speed, price and safety being the main reasons for this ranking.

The pandemic completely changed the economic structure and retail methods in 2020, which ultimately caused Amazon to stand out among grocery retailers this year. Its performance in customer safety ratings and pandemic response far exceeded other retailers. In 2020, online grocery shopping increased sharply. In one week in late April, Amazon's sales increased nearly three times (289%) compared with the same period last year.

Last time, we also analyzed that daily necessities including groceries and some hygiene and personal care products will be best-selling categories in the post-epidemic era. The current vaccine situation in the United States is still not optimistic. Not only has there been a scandal of serious inventory shortages, but negative news has also frequently been reported. This situation of online shopping for groceries and daily necessities will continue for at least another year, so sellers who have plans to develop new products may wish to take a look at these categories of products. There is definitely a lot of demand. Finally, I found a super comprehensive product development and promotion operation guide for sellers who are interested in developing new products.