Amazon.com checkout goes down in extended outage for many users

Users reported a widespread outage of the checkout system on Amazon.com starting Friday afternoon. “There’s a technical issue which is preventing orders from being placed at the moment,” Amazon said in a message on its customer support portal. “We’re working on a solution and recommend you try again later. We’re sorry about any inconvenience this may cause.” GeekWire confirmed Friday that the glitch was showing up when clicking “Proceed to checkout” from the Amazon shopping cart, leading to one of the company’s cute but frustrating “Dogs of Amazon” error pages, such as the one above, apologizing that “something went wrong… Read More


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