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Amazon cloud outage delays Adele ’30’ tour presale

Ticket website Ticketmaster was affected by the Amazon outage on Tuesday.

Adele performing

After half a decade of waiting, Adele fans have to wait a few more hours to buy tickets to her next tour.

widespread outage that affected Amazon.com Inc. and all of its cloud services on Tuesday morning hit ticket-sale platform Ticketmaster, delaying the presale window for Adele’s new tour by four hours. Popular websites like Coinbase, Robinhood and Netflix also experienced problems.

Due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage impacting companies globally, the Adele Verified Fan Presale window originally scheduled for 10AM PT will now begin at 2PM PT and last until 2:55PM PT

— Ticketmaster (@Ticketmaster) December 7, 2021

Due to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage impacting companies globally, the Adele Verified Fan Presale window originally scheduled for 10AM PT will now begin at 2PM PT and last until 2:55PM PT

Adele is scheduled to make her stage comeback with a tour in support of her November album “30” in July 2022, five years after concluding her last world tour. 

—With assistance from Spencer Soper.

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