Amazon gets caught in rare outage

Even Amazon isn’t immune to the occasional online hiccup.



Pages failed to load across the online store on Wednesday, June 7. When they did, customers viewed a 503 error message, along with snippets from the online retailer’s “Meet the Dogs of Amazon” page, which included photos and stats of the company’s canines, according to The Verge.



According to the report, the outages mostly seemed to affect audiences across the Northeast and West Coast. The issue kept many shoppers from accessing any product pages or completing orders.



By 4:50 p.m. EST, the site was running business as usual, the report said.



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