Amazon To Reportedly Tackle Outages Issue In Retail Tech Meeting

• Treadwell reportedly said in a note to employees that the meeting would focus on recent outage issues, in light of the severity of the incidents. 
• As per CNBC, the meeting will be held on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. ET.
• Treadwell’s comments and meeting plan follow an Amazon website outage last week that impacted thousands of users across the U.S.

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is reportedly planning to address recent outage issues, including a few that were related to artificial intelligence coding issues, at a retail technology meeting on Tuesday.

According to a report from CNBC, Amazon’s senior vice president of eCommerce Foundation, Dave Treadwell, told employees that the company’s “This Week in Stores Tech,” or TWiST, meeting would involve a “deep dive” on some of the issues. As per the report that cited an Amazon spokesperson, TWiST is a weekly meeting at the company where leaders go over store performance and operations.

As per CNBC, the meeting will be held on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Treadwell reportedly said in a note to employees that the site’s availability and related infrastructure “has not been good recently,” and the meeting would focus on these issues, in light of the severity of the incidents.

Amazon Outages

Treadwell’s comments and meeting plan follow an Amazon website outage last week when thousands of users across the U.S. ran into issues with checkout, mobile application functionality, and product pages.

Amazon reportedly clarified it to be related to software code deployment issues, which the company said it had resolved following the outage.

According to the report, Treadwell noted that Amazon had experienced four outage-related incidents in a week, adding that a “deep dive” on the issues was necessary to reinstate the company’s  “strong availability posture.”

Apart from the website, Amazon Web Services has also experienced multiple outages recently.

Data Centers

Separately, some of Amazon’s data centers were damaged in the war among the U.S., Israel, and Iran, when drone strikes hit facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain last week.

This resulted in damaged infrastructure, including disrupted power delivery, and some fires that ultimately interrupted cloud services and impacted quick recovery.

Meanwhile, shares of AMZN have declined about 5% in the past year. On Stocktwits, retail sentiment around AMZN shares was in the ‘bearish’ territory at the time of writing amid ‘low’ message volumes.

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