Amazon.com has become the latest high-profile website to go offline in recent days. Google was down 2 minutes on Friday causing a 40% dip in worldwide internet traffic
500 Service Unavailable Error report
Amazon.com has become the latest high-profile website to go offline in recent days.
Visitors to the US shopping site were greeted with a message saying: "Oops! We're very sorry," alongside a "500 Service Unavailable Error" report.
The site returned online about half an hour after the problem was first flagged by users of the news site Reddit.
Amazon could not be reached for comment at this time.
The firm's UK site was not affected by the issue, however its Canadian home page also showed an error message.