India, March 6 -- Popular e-commerce platform Amazon was down for thousands of users in the US on Thursday. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed at least 22,000 reports about issues on Amazon at the time of writing this story. The actual number of affected users may vary.

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Users on social media flagged issues with logging in, checking out, and browsing products on the company's website. While complaints grew, several social media users speculated whether Amazon was facing a cyberattack, especially since the US is involved in a conflict with Iran.

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