Global Amazon Outage Disrupts Checkout, Then Restores Service

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Amazon suffered a global outage that disrupted checkout and pricing for tens of thousands of shoppers, caused by a software code deployment. Downdetector tracked peaks around 20,000 reports, AWS was not implicated, and Amazon said the issue was resolved by the evening as both website and app returned to normal.
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