Amazon.com is Back Online After Several Hours Down

JAKARTA – Online retail company from the US, Amazon.com Inc announced that it has resolved an issue that prevented some users from accessing their shopping site on Wednesday, December 7.

"We apologize that some customers may experience temporary issues while shopping. We have resolved the issue," a company spokesperson told Reuters. However, he did not provide any details about the cause of the website blackout.

Earlier on Wednesday morning US time, some users in the US faced problems accessing the shopping site Amazon.com. About 12.000 users reported issues as of 10 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by compiling status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

Amazon shares fell slightly amid a broader sell-off in the stock market. For some technology companies, the problem of blackouts is indeed a very big issue. Especially for Amazon, which relies on online sales every second.