Amazon was down Thursday afternoon (AMZN)
In a very rare instance, the Amazon website was down Thursday afternoon:
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The site appears to be back up now.
Amazon's China site — Amazon.CN — was still down even after the main US site recovered, however, according to the site IsItDownRightNow:
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It was back up by 11:55 am PST.
Amazon's cloud platform AWS, appeared to have a spike in error reports around 11 am PST:
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Amazon wasn't immediately available for comment on the unusual outage.
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