Intro amazon's web server suffering a crippling outage today delivery trucks halted for a time and taking parts of the internet with it the problem not only affecting amazon but reportedly many other major services including netflix disney plus and some of the smart devices right in your own home here's our chief national correspondent matt guppin now tonight that massive amazon server Amazon server outage outage temporarily crippling some of the world's most popular online services potentially impacting millions of people at home hit with slowdowns trying to use smart devices like alexa buy airline tickets and stream movies and tv shows Amazon services affected even amazon package deliveries temporarily halted due to concentration with the administration of some of these services when there is an outage that takes place it can have wide-ranging impact those outages apparently affecting streaming Streaming services affected services like netflix roku and disney plus owned by the parent company of abc but also airlines like southwest and delta even mcdonald's and the video game company behind fortnite amazon saying Conclusion that many of its services have already recovered now the company and analysts with whom we've spoken indicate that this is likely not the result of a cyber attack but more likely the kind of error that can happen periodically in a computing system this big and this complex david shows just how interconnected everything is these days matt gupp and matt thank you Outro hi everyone george stephanopoulos here thanks for checking out the abc news youtube channel if you'd like to get more videos show highlights and watch live event coverage click on the right over here to subscribe to our channel and don't forget to download the abc news app for breaking news alerts thanks for watching