{"id":46949,"date":"2026-03-06T04:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/amazon-is-back-up-after-outage-affecting-tens-of-thousands-of-shoppers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:21:21","slug":"amazon-is-back-up-after-outage-affecting-tens-of-thousands-of-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/amazon-is-back-up-after-outage-affecting-tens-of-thousands-of-shoppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is back up after outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69a9f079fd4fbd083f299d35?format=jpeg\" alt=\"amazon\"\/><figcaption>Amazon is facing an outage, affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally who are experiencing issues with checkout and payment.<\/p>\n<p>Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon faced an outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Downdetector reported a surge in complaints of Amazon issues, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon&#039;s outage involved checkout and pricing errors, caused by a software code deployment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazon experienced an outage on Thursday that lasted into the evening, and tens of thousands of shoppers said they had trouble accessing Amazon&#039;s services.<\/p>\n<p>According to outage tracker Downdetector, reports of issues surged Thursday afternoon, reaching about 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET on March 5. Complaints first spiked around 2:30 p.m., when roughly 18,000 users reported problems. The number briefly dipped to around 16,000 before climbing again.<\/p>\n<p>Users on Downdetector said the problems ranged from checkout and payment failures to incorrect or fluctuating prices appearing on product listings.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We&#039;re sorry that some customers may be experiencing issues while shopping,&quot; Amazon said in an earlier statement to Business Insider. &quot;We appreciate customers&#039; patience as we work to resolve the issue.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The outage does not appear to be related to Amazon Web Services. When AWS experienced an outage in October 2025, it knocked out a slew of other apps that rely on the cloud service, including Wordle, Slack, Snapchat, and Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>That outage was attributed to a DNS error in Amazon&#039;s Virginia data center.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8 p.m. ET, Amazon&#039;s issue appears to be resolved, and Downdetector is no longer receiving a high number of outage reports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have resolved the issue, which was related to a software code deployment, and website and app are now running smoothly,&quot; said Amazon in its latest statement to Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is facing an outage, affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally who are experiencing issues with checkout and payment. Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images Amazon faced an outage affecting tens of thousands of shoppers globally on Thursday afternoon. Downdetector reported a surge in complaints of Amazon issues, peaking at 20,000 by 3:49 p.m. ET. Amazon&#039;s outage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}