Amazon shopping, streaming, business services begin to come back after outage :: WRAL.com

— Holiday shoppers and web developers nationwide were stalled on Tuesday when some of Amazon’s business services, including e-commerce, web hosting and Prime Video, went offline shortly after 10:30 a.m. ET, according to DownDetector.com, which tracks connectivity issues based on customer reports.

At noon, DownDetector showed a peak of more than 25,000 reports of problems connecting to Amazon.com and 11,000 reports about outages on Amazon Web Services, which provides remote computing and cloud computing services to other businesses, including WRAL Digital. The problem was concentrated along the eastern seaboard, with Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Atlanta all showing outages.

WRAL uses Amazon Web Services, for instance, to schedule the livestreaming of regular newscasts to the WRAL News app and to download the latest news stories from the Associated Press and video from NBC. Each of those services was showing delays or was simply unavailable on

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