Amazon Resolves Major US Website Outage Caused by Software Glitch

Amazon experienced a significant website outage on Thursday affecting tens of thousands of users in the U.S., with issues in logging in, browsing, and checkout reported. The company attributed the disruption to a software code deployment glitch, which has since been resolved. Minor disruptions were also noted in Amazon's Prime Video and cloud services. Separately, some of Amazon's data centers in the UAE and Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes amid Middle East tensions, but no official link to the outage was confirmed.