Tech giant, Amazon, experienced a major outage which affected its e-commerce websites and other applications.

The outage came five months after the company witnessed a disruption on its online stores service which lasted for almost two hours and affected more than 38,000 users.

According to the Downdetector website, more than 24,000 people reported problems with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon had said the problem was related to network devices and linked to application programming interface (API), which is used for building and integrating application software.

The site, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources, showed 1,191 problems with AWS were raised just after 4pm in the UK and by 7.25pm that number had fallen to 258.

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