Amazon and various leading online retail websites continue to function during this afternoon’s significant internet disruption, although they are facing sluggish loading times. The outage appears to be affecting numerous online services, including the ecommerce platform Shopify. Walmart and Target rely on Shopify to facilitate their third-party marketplace vendors.

Mashable journalists were able to successfully add items to their shopping cart and finalize the checkout process on Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and eBay, as well as multiple online shops utilizing Shopify (Sennheiser, Good American, Allbirds, Brooklinen, and Netflix). Nonetheless, every site assessed was notably slow to load.

The precise reason for today’s outage remains unclear.

This situation is ongoing.