Is Amazon Down?

Q: Is Amazon down right now?

Check the status indicator above for real-time Amazon availability. If Amazon is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/ for incident updates.

Real-time status check for Amazon (amazon.com). We check from multiple regions to give you an accurate picture.

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About Amazon

Amazon.com is the world's largest ecommerce site, powering consumer shopping plus Prime Video, Prime Music, Alexa, Kindle, and the Amazon seller marketplace. Consumer-side outages hit product search, checkout, order status pages, and the Alexa voice assistant. Seller-side outages affect Seller Central (listings, inventory, ads, fulfilment), which is painful for FBA merchants during peak shopping periods. Because Amazon.com runs on AWS, the retail site occasionally shares fate with AWS incidents, though Amazon isolates retail workloads heavily and has survived multiple AWS regional incidents largely unscathed.

The official Amazon status page is at downdetector.com/status/amazon. However, official status pages are often updated manually and can lag behind real outages by minutes or even hours. Independent monitoring catches issues faster.

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Official status pages are often updated manually, lagging 5-30 minutes behind actual outages. Visual Sentinel detects issues within 60 seconds automatically.

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We check from EU and US simultaneously. A service might be down in one region but not another, we catch regional outages.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Amazon down right now?+

Check the status indicator at the top of this page for real-time Amazon availability. If Amazon is down, you can also check their official status page at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/ for incident updates.

How do I check if Amazon is having issues?+

This page checks Amazon availability in real time. You can also monitor Amazon continuously with Visual Sentinel, get instant alerts via email, Slack, Discord, or WhatsApp when Amazon goes down.

How can I get alerted when Amazon goes down?+

Set up a free monitor for amazon.com on Visual Sentinel. You'll get alerts within 60 seconds via your choice of 11 notification channels including email, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, and Telegram.

Where is the official Amazon status page?+

The official Amazon status page is at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/. However, official status pages often lag behind real outages. Visual Sentinel detects Amazon issues independently with 60-second checks from multiple global regions.

Does an Amazon.com outage mean AWS is also down?+

Not necessarily. Amazon.com runs on AWS but is heavily isolated across regions. AWS regional outages often leave Amazon.com functional because traffic shifts to healthy regions. AWS control-plane incidents (IAM, CloudFormation) sometimes correlate with retail issues.

Can I still get Alexa responses if Amazon.com is down?+

Alexa runs on separate Voice Service infrastructure. Most Amazon.com outages do not affect Alexa voice recognition or routine skills. Purchase skills ("Alexa, reorder paper towels") hit the same shopping backend as Amazon.com and can fail during retail outages.