Amazon.com said that its website experienced slowdowns for much of the day on Monday but was running normally by the evening.
Spokesperson Patty Smith said the world’s largest internet retailer began experiencing ”a slowness” around 8.30am (4.30pm GMT), causing problems for some customers trying to access the website or buy items.
The problem was fixed by 5pm (1am GMT on Tuesday), Smith said.
Amazon technicians weren’t clear what had caused the problem, but Smith said the Seattle-based company typically wouldn’t disclose such information in any case.
”It’s a very complex site that we have and on rare occasions it does experience problems,” she said. – Sapa-AP