If you were like a lot of families across America you turned to Netflix to enjoy a nice movie after your Christmas eve meal only to find the service DOA…

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Netflix experienced a nationwide outage just when America was sitting down to enjoy the tradition of a Christmas eve movie.

The company based in Los Gatos, Calif., apologized on Twitter for the Monday night outage by blaming it on Amazon, “Some of Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.” Netflix says, “we are working with Amazon engineers to restore the outage,” a company spokesman told the Wall Street Journal stretched “across the Americas.”