Amazon outage: Here's what we know so far

The online retail giant went down for thousands on Thursday. Amazon went down on Thursday, effectively slowing the U.S. capitalist machine for at least a few hours. Thousands of bereft shoppers reported issues with the online retail giant starting just before 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT, which left them temporarily unable to complete their purchases. Crowdsourced outage tracker …