Amazon restores service after global outage


FILE PHOTO A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden Colorado July 23 2008.   REUTERSRick WilkingFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: A box from Amazon.com is pictured on the porch of a house in Golden, Colorado July 23, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites.

According to outage monitoring website Downdetector, services were disrupted for nearly two hours and at the peak of the disruption, more than 38,000 user reports indicated issues with Amazon's online stores. They occurred on Sunday evening in the United States and Monday morning for much of the rest of the world.

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