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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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