Amazon is back up after outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers

Amazon is facing an outage, affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally who are experiencing issues with checkout and payment.

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• Amazon faced an outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon.
• Downdetector reported a surge in complaints of Amazon issues, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET.
• Amazon's outage involved checkout and pricing errors, caused by a software code deployment.

Amazon experienced...