Amazon.com is back up and running after a Thursday night outage
If you were having issues shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music on Thursday, you weren't alone. For over three hours today, Downdetector showed a sizable spike in people reporting issues with checkout, search, and logging in. The problem seemed to be affecting both the site and the mobile apps. But an Amazon spokesperson tells The Verge that the issues are now fixed.
"We're sorry that some customers may have temporarily experienced issues while shopping," Amazon spokesperson Jennie Bryant says in a statement. "We have resolved the issue, which was related to a software code deployment, and website and app are now runn ...