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Amazon, Fortnite, Hulu and several other leading sites appear to have gone down briefly amid a widespread internet outage.
Website health monitor Down Detector registered thousands of reports of the websites not working.
It is not immediately clear what the issue is, though problems were also impacting Amazon Web Services, which hosts a number of high-profile sites and platforms.
Leading cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and popular video game Rocket League were also was hit by the issues, which come just three days before Christmas.
The issue appears to have been relatively short lived, with service resuming within 30 minutes of the reports first appearing on Wednesday afternoon.
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