Amazon Web Services down for thousands of users

Amazon Web Services was down for thousands of users on Tuesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

More than 10,000 users reported issues with accessing the service, 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.

Amazon did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.