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Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica • 5 March 2026
Based on over 20,000 reports, Amazon appears to be experiencing an outage.
According to Downdetector , reports of problems started increasing at 1:41 pm ET today. By 2:26 pm, ET, Downdetector received 18,320 reports of problems with Amazon’s website. The number of complaints peaked at 3:32 pm ET at 20,804.
As of this writing, Amazon hasn’t confirmed any specific problems. However, an Amazon support account on X said at 3:02 pm ET today that “some customers may be experiencing issues” and that Amazon is working “to resolve the issue.”