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Amazon's website and app went down for thousands of users Thursday after a faulty software deployment, disrupting checkout, account access, and Amazon Fresh orders. The outage lasted roughly six hours and followed earlier AWS data center damage from drone strikes in the UAE and Bahrain.
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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02Amazon's website and shopping app experienced outages for some users on Thursday,
00:07preventing customers from checking out, accessing account information,
00:10or viewing product prices, according to CNBC. Reports of problems surged around 2 p.m. Eastern
00:16time, and more than 22,000 users reported issues two hours later, according to DownDetector.
00:22Amazon said the disruption was caused by a software code deployment.
00:26The company said the issue was resolved by 8 p.m. Eastern time, and services returned to normal.
00:32Users also reported problems placing orders and viewing purchase history with Amazon Fresh.
00:37The incident followed outages at Amazon Web Services after drone strikes damaged three
00:42company data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Amazon said its cloud services were
00:48operating normally. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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