Yep, Amazon Is Down | Lifehacker
If you’re shopping online or just trying to access certain websites and things aren’t loading properly, it’s (probably) not your Internet: Amazon is down. As of Thursday afternoon, Amazon services, including Amazon.com and AWS, were experiencing loading and operational issues.
You can see this on Downdetector, a site used to track user reports of problems with websites and services. (Disclosure: Lifehacker’s parent company, Ziff Davis, owns Downdetector.) As of the date of this article, Amazon.com has tens of thousands of user reports, while AWS has thousands. Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service, also offers user reports at the moment, although they aren’t as drastic.
It’s not yet clear what exactly is causing the issues, but this isn’t the first time Amazon has made headlines for outages. Last October, AWS experienced a significant downtime, shutting down much of the internet. Many sites and services rely on AWS to function. So when Amazon has problems, all of these companies have problems too.
What do you think of it so far?
I’m sure we’ll find out what the problem is in due time, and Amazon will no doubt release a fix soon after. But it shows that even the world’s largest companies are not immune to problems. And when these problems arise, it affects a plot users.
