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Amazon.com: Retail Outage Hits Thousands After Code Deployment Bug
Amazon's retail platform experienced a widespread outage on Thursday that caused login, checkout, and pricing errors for tens of thousands of users. The company says the incident was caused by a faulty software deployment, not AWS infrastructure issues. Notably, this comes just days after drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain, highlighting how both software failures and geopolitical risks are emerging threats to global digital availability.
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