Amazon's checkout function encountered technical issues on Friday, keeping customers from completing purchases. The e-commerce site displayed error messages with photos of dogs during the outage as people posted about it on social media.
To run its website, Amazon relies on its own data center infrastructure. But the company's Amazon Web Services division was not reporting any technical issues while the checkout feature wasn't working. AWS downtime can lead to problems across the internet because so many companies rely on the market-leading public cloud.