Amazon back online after thousands report outages

E-commerce giant Amazon restored operations to its online stores after thousands of users reported issues while trying to access the website.

More than 38,000 users were reporting outages at the interruption’s peak late Sunday night, according to Downdetector, which monitors outages for internet services by reviewing social media posts and reports inputted in its own outage reporting system. Thousands of users began reporting outages at around 10:30 p.m.