Huge disruption at Amazon just before Black Friday - These regions are affected

There is currently a huge disruption at Amazon.

Many users cannot access the page.

The reason could be the sale of a popular game console.

• At

  Amazon

  there is a Europe-wide

  disruption

  shortly before Black Friday on November 27, 2020

  .

• Many users are currently having problems

  accessing

  the online retailer's

  website

  .

• The reason is probably the

  launch of

  the

  PlayStation 5

  .

Kassel - Many users are currently unable to access the

.

Since around 1 p.m. on Thursday (November 19th, 2020) there have been immense disruptions, reports the consumer portal allestören.de.

There are apparently huge problems,

especially when loading the

home page.

Around 80 percent of the reported

related to the fact that users could not access the

.

At 1:23 p.m., 1323 reports were received by allestören.de.

The problems at Amazon shortly before

are apparently not only in Germany, but throughout Europe.

Huge disruption before Black Friday: Amazon site does not work for many

With many users

the

does not work.

However, a small number of users also reported that they could not log into Amazon and that the payment function did not work.

The disruption is particularly explosive, since Black Friday can also be expected to attract a huge rush to the Amazon site.

A study shows which products are particularly popular on Black Friday 2020.

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There is currently a malfunction at Amazon in Europe.

Many users cannot access the Amazon site.

In Germany, some regions are particularly badly affected.

© allestören.de

About 16 percent of the reports on allestören.de refer to the fact that

could not log into their Amazon account.

About 3 percent had problems paying.

Presumably, the launch of the

game console

led to the disruption of the Amazon site.

I already knew that it would be a miracle today to actually get hold of a # PS5.

But the #amazon instantly down at 1:00 p.m. surprised me.

👀

- Leonie Werner (@fangirl_leo) November 19, 2020

Amazon currently has a huge malfunction shortly before Black Friday - page often does not work

The sales start for the

should be on Thursday, November 19th, 2020 at 1 p.m.

Many fans have been waiting eagerly for the new game console from Sony for years.

The demand for the new PlayStation is probably correspondingly high.

The disruption comes just before

in about a week.

Also on Twitter, some users expressed the assumption that the

at

and the sale of the PlayStation 5 could be related.

The PlayStation 5 is currently

not available

on the

.

The following regions are particularly affected by the disorder:

• Berlin

• Hamburg

• Cologne and Düsseldorf in North Rhine-Westphalia

A map from allestören.de shows which regions are particularly affected.

In Germany, the regions around Berlin, Hamburg and in North Rhine-Westphalia around Cologne and Düsseldorf are particularly

affected

by the

.

But other regions in Europe are also affected, especially the regions around Paris and London.

(Sarah Neumeyer)