E-Commerce
Amazon
The world's largest e-commerce retailer, shipping hundreds of millions of products with Prime free two-day delivery.
What is Amazon?
Is Amazon down? Amazon.com is the world's largest online retailer and one of the most visited websites on the internet, founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. What began as an online bookstore has grown into a global commerce platform selling over 350 million products across every conceivable category — electronics, clothing, groceries, home goods, industrial supplies, and billions of third-party marketplace items. Amazon Prime, the company's subscription programme, has over 200 million members worldwide and bundles free shipping, Prime Video streaming, Prime Music, Amazon Photos, and exclusive member deals into a single membership that has fundamentally changed consumer expectations for delivery speed.
Amazon's commerce infrastructure is staggering in scale: the platform facilitates over 4,000 orders per minute at its peak, runs the Amazon Marketplace where millions of independent sellers list products alongside Amazon's own retail inventory, and operates a logistics network that includes fulfilment centres, delivery stations, Amazon Logistics, and Amazon Air. Amazon operates Prime Day and Black Friday as two of the highest-traffic shopping events on the internet, generating billions of dollars in sales within 24-hour windows that stress every layer of the platform simultaneously.
Amazon website outages are significant commercial events given the volume of purchasing activity the platform handles at all hours. Common issues include product pages failing to load, search results not returning, the shopping cart encountering checkout errors, order management pages becoming inaccessible, and Prime Video streaming disruptions (which share login with Amazon shopping). Because Amazon.com sits on AWS infrastructure, large AWS regional incidents can sometimes affect Amazon's own retail platform.
Outage.gg monitors Amazon.com server status in real time. If Amazon is down or checkout is not working, visit the live status page for community reports and subscribe for an instant notification when service is restored.
Common Amazon Problems
Issues users most frequently report when Amazon is having problems.
Login failures
Players are unable to sign in, receiving authentication errors or being stuck on loading screens.
Matchmaking problems
Unable to find or join matches, long queue times, or errors when trying to connect to game servers.
Disconnections mid-session
Getting unexpectedly kicked from active sessions, losing in-game progress or items.
In-game store & purchases
Cannot load the in-game store, complete purchases, or received items are not appearing in inventory.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Amazon outages and server status.
You can check the live Amazon server status at outage.gg/services/amazon. The page shows real-time community-submitted outage reports, an hourly trend chart, and the current health status.
Amazon can stop working for a number of reasons including scheduled maintenance windows, unexpected server failures, network infrastructure problems, or DDoS attacks. Check the live status page on Outage.gg for the latest community reports to see if others are experiencing the same issue.
Go to outage.gg/services/amazon and click the "Report an Issue" button. Your report is counted immediately and helps confirm whether a problem is widespread. Reports from multiple users trigger a status change visible to everyone watching the page.
Click the "Notify Me" bell button on the Amazon status page at outage.gg/services/amazon. Create a free account and we will send you an email the moment Amazon comes back online — no app download required.
Yes. You can find official announcements at the Amazon website: https://www.amazon.com. For real-time community outage data, Outage.gg tracks user reports as they happen and often picks up problems before official announcements.
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