Amazon’s biggest shopping day of the year, Cyber Monday, has the company predicting that it will be shipping at least “500 orders every second” today, according to this report by King 5.

That sort of load can put huge stress on any e-commerce system, as Target found out today when its site crashed, according to this report from Jacob Demmitt at GeekWire.

There have been no reports of Amazon sputtering just yet, but we’ll be keeping an eye on things throughout the day.

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Online shopping experienced huge bumps this weekend — as Bloomberg reports, at least 25 percent on Thanksgiving and 21.5 percent on Black Friday. Adobe predicts that Cyber Monday will be the biggest online shopping day this year, an estimated $3 billion to be spent today.

Amazon is keeping the online holiday deals coming, with “specials rolling out every 10 minutes,” and it is advertising those deals in an effort to gain even more market share. Cyber Monday deals already include the Echo, Kindle, and items at Amazon Fashion, with a full list available here.

In the video, King 5 goes inside Amazon’s Dupont, Wash., facility, where 500 full-time workers feverishly work to pack up the holiday goods.

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