Agency Report
Amazon and all of its services have crashed across the globe, knocking out other popular websites like Tinder and Venmo that rely on the company’s cloud servers and affecting thousands of consumers.
The platform, Amazon Music and Prime video, Alexa, Ring and Amazon Web Services, which offers a series of services for online applications, all started experiencing problems at 10:40am ET.
Amazon officials stated they have identified the ‘root cause’ of the problem and were working to fix it, according to Dailymail.
Amazon said the outage was likely due to issues related to application programming interface, which is a set of protocols for building and integrating application software.
