Amazon down for thousands of users

Amazon.com Inc was down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

About 12,000 users reported issues with accessing the e-commerce platform in the United States as of 10 am ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

The outage may be affecting a larger number of users.

Users also reported outage at Amazon’s cloud services unit Amazon Web Services but the reports were fewer than 300, according to Downdetector.