Amazon’s website crashed as soon as Prime Day began

Amazon’s website is suffering an outage on Prime Day, the e-commerce giant’s made-up sales holiday designed to maximize orders and single-day revenue. According to DownDetector.com, Amazon has been experiencing issues since around 3:05PM ET today, with a large spike in reports in the last 10 minutes. Prime Day officially began at 3PM ET / 12PM PT.It’s not immediately clear how widespread the outage is or if it’s only affecting certain regions of the US. Some users have r