The outage tracking website collates status reports from a number of sources, including user-submitted errors on its platform. Users began reporting issues around 10:40 a.m. ET on Tuesday and the outage might have affected a larger number of users. Amazon has experienced 27 outages over the past 12 months related to its services, according to web tool reviewing website ToolTester. In June, websites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, PayPal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the New York Times were hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based content delivery network provider Fastly Inc, a smaller rival of AWS. (Reporting by Eva Mathews in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)