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ZDNET's key takeaways
Amazon is experiencing a disruption.
Users report checkout, product page, and mobile app issues.
Amazon is working to fix the issue.
If you had trouble viewing an Amazon product's price or using the Amazon app today, you're not the only one. Amazon was experiencing a disruption, as flagged on Downdetector. Over 150,000 reports had been submitted to the site, Thursday.
Downdetector's map showed the partial outage impacting major US cities, including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle. The service, which corrals user reports, is owned by ZDNET's parent company, Ziff Davis.
Latest update
As of 7:00 p.m. ET, we're seeing more reports of users regaining access to Amazon and being able to use most functions like normal. Expect services to fully resume shortly.
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