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Amazon is battling to regroup after a major cloud services outage disrupted the company's shipping operations on Tuesday, threatening to create lasting logjams during the season.

The roughly eight-hour Amazon Web Services outage on Tuesday shut down communications between the e-commerc.

Some customers who were expecting packages on Tuesday were notified that delivery would be delayed for one to two days, according to complaints on social media. 

Amazon and its delivery partners are said to be regrouping on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent the disruption from spiraling out of control. 

An Amazon spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail.com on Wednesday morning. 

Amazon is battling to regroup after a major cloud services outage reportedly disrupted the company's shipping operations on Tuesday, threatening to create lasting logjams during the crucial Christmas season

The outage came during the company's crucial and busy Christmas shopping season, and could potentially create persistent logjams at a time where there is already a critical crunch on the supply chain

Amazon went down across the globe, frustrating thousands of users who are trying to purchase Christmas gifts.

DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows North America, parts of Europe and Asia are all experiencing issues

The outage also disrupted operations for independent sellers who use the company's marketplace to sell goods

The AWS outage began at around 10am ET and had widespread impacts. The company said by 6pm that the issue was mostly resolved, and at 7.30pm the network device issue had been fully resolved, with Amazon adding that it was 'working towards recovery of any impaired services.'

The company said that connections to one of its most crucial server systems were disrupted by a technical error and no malicious interference from hackers is currently suspected. 

'The root cause of this issue is an impairment of several network devices,' the company said in a statement. 

Many customers who were expecting packages on Tuesday were notified of a delay of one to two days

The incident at Amazon Web Services mostly affected the eastern U.S., but still impacted everything from airline reservations and auto dealerships to payment apps and video streaming services to Amazon's own massive e-commerce operation. 

That included The Associated Press, whose publishing system was inoperable for much of the day, greatly limiting its ability to publish its news report.

Amazon has still said nothing about what, exactly, went wrong.

In fact, the company limited its communications Tuesday to terse technical explanations on an AWS dashboard and a brief statement delivered via spokesperson Richard Rocha that acknowledged the outage had affected Amazon's own warehouse and delivery operation but said the company was 'working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.'

Roughly five hours after numerous companies and other organizations began reporting issues, the company said in a post on the AWS status page that it had 'mitigated' the underlying problem responsible for the outage, which it did not describe.

It took some affected companies hours more to thoroughly check their systems and restart their own services.

Amazon Web Services was formerly run by Andy Jassy, who succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO in July. 

The cloud-service operation is a huge profit center for Amazon. It holds roughly a third of the $152 billion market for cloud services, according to a report by Synergy Research - a larger share than its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, combined.

Complaints piled up by the thousands following the technical disruption to Amazon's delivery operations

Amazon Web Services was formerly run by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (above), who succeeded founder Jeff Bezos as Amazon CEO in July

As well as the US - the Amazon outage has affected parts of the United Kingdom, Europe, Pakistan, India and Asia

Amazon stock briefly dipped on Tuesday but fully recovered its losses as seen in this five-day view of the share price, suggesting that investors do not anticipate the outage will have a long-term impact on the company's profits

To technologist and public data access activist Carl Malamud, the AWS outage highlights how much Big Tech has warped the internet, which was originally designed as a distributed and decentralized network intended to survive mass disasters such as nuclear attack.