Amazon experienced a major outage on Thursday, affecting thousands of users in the US, with at least 22,000 reports of issues on the platform.
Users faced problems with logging in, checking out, and browsing products on the company's website, sparking speculation about a potential cyberattack.
However, Amazon has not confirmed any hacking incident, with a spokesperson attributing the outage to an issue that is being worked on.
No official statement has been made on the cause or timeline for resolving the issue, with past similar outages taking 4-12 hours to resolve.
Users are advised to refresh the page, clear cache/cookies, try a different browser/device or network, and check the status on health.aws.amazon.com or downdetector.com/status/amazon.
