Amazon.com Is Back Up After Rare Outage

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By Seth Fiegerman2013-08-19 19:28:03 UTC

Update (3:38 p.m. ET): Amazon is back online after suffering a rare outage for the better part of an hour on Monday afternoon.

Earlier: Amazon.com appears to be suffering from a rare outage — at least for U.S. users.

The e-commerce website has been down for nearly an hour, though international versions of the website continue to function normally. Amazon is reportedly aware of the issue and says it will be back online soon. We've reached out to Amazon for more information and will update this post when we hear back.

Those visiting Amazon.com in the U.S. were greeted with the following message:

The outage appears to have affected other websites as well:

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