According to reports, Netflix's Internet streaming service was hit by an outage for the America region subscribers on December 24, apparently because of some technical issues with the Amazon. com hosting services.

As per a Reuters report, the Netflix outage started at around 3:30 p. m. Eastern Monday; and affected the customers in the US, Canada and Latin America. The reason behind the outage, going by a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report, was a disruption due to some technical problems at the Amazon Web Services data center in Northern Virginia.

With the outage of Netflix's Internet streaming service preventing the subscribers in the Americas region from streaming on different devices, including Roku players, thousands of Netflix customers could not view their Christmas and other videos for nearly 20 hours.

However, Netflix said in a Tuesday, December 25, statement that its Internet streaming service was restored for all subscribers on Tuesday morning, thanks largely to the relentless repair work which the Netflix and Amazon engineers carried out throughout the night.

Meanwhile, as per the WSJ report, with Amazon directly competing with the Netflix video service with its own online video service dubbed Prime Instant Videos, the December 24 outage of Amazon Web Services was at least the third major outage for the service this year.