Amazon status: is it down right now?
Our own check of amazon.com from Europe and the US, every 3 minutes, with recent history.
amazon.com responded. The page answered normally in 858 ms.
amazon.com responded.
The page answered normally in 858 ms.
Checked (just now) from Europe and the US, automatic every 3 minutes.
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This checks the response from amazon.com. It does not test playback, login or every Amazon feature.
Amazon status history
Our own checks from Europe and the US. Green means every check passed, amber means some checks failed, red means most checks in that period failed.
Outages our checks detected
None since Oct 13. A problem has to fail two checks in a row before we record it.
Watch your own site
This page is for their outage. Your own site can fail the same way. See its first check free, then try a paid plan for 7 days (card required).
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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.
Amazon does not publish a reliable public status dashboard for every outage. The community outage reference below can help with extra context, but independent monitoring is still the safer signal.
outage patterns
How Amazon outages cost revenue
E-commerce outages translate directly to lost transactions. Every minute Amazon is down or degraded, abandoned carts pile up, payment retries fail, and customers move to competitors. Status pages alone aren't enough because the platform may report healthy while a specific checkout or fulfilment endpoint silently fails.
The live tool above checks the public amazon.com endpoint from EU and US. It does not place an order, authorize a payment, or validate a merchant-specific checkout, so a green result cannot rule out a transaction failure. Use the provider status reference and run a safe test of the exact payment or fulfilment path you depend on.
Common signs Amazon is having issues
- Checkout pages loading but failing to submit, or hanging on the payment confirmation step
- Product images, badges, or pricing widgets failing to render even though the page answered normally
- Cart contents disappearing between page loads (session backend degraded)
- Coupon or discount validation timing out, blocking otherwise-complete orders
What to do when Amazon is degraded
If Amazon is having issues during peak traffic, communicate proactively to customers via banner messaging or status page (independent of Amazon's status). For high-value carts, consider holding a snapshot in your own database so customers can resume the checkout once the platform recovers.
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Get independent uptime alerts when the public Amazon endpoint fails a confirmed check. Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes; Business and Agency check every 60 seconds.
5-minute checks from Solo
Business and Agency support 60-second uptime checks.
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EU & US checks. Catch regional outages.
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Email and push on every plan, plus team and incident channels by plan.
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why independent monitoring
Provider status references
and endpoint checks answer different questions.
Independent endpoint evidence
The regional check can show that a public endpoint is failing before or after a provider posts broader incident context. It does not validate every product subsystem.
Scheduled alerts
Monitor Amazon on your plan interval and route confirmed endpoint failures through the notification channels available to your workspace.
Multi-region verification
EU and US results can reveal a regional difference in public-endpoint reachability. Confirm the exact workflow and provider region you use.
Historical data
Track Amazon uptime over time. See trends, identify recurring issues, and make informed decisions about your dependency.
Frequently asked questions
Is Amazon down right now?
See the latest check of amazon.com and its timestamp at the top of this page. If Amazon is down, you can also check the community outage reference for extra context.
How do I check if Amazon is having issues?
This page checks the public Amazon endpoint from EU and US. You can also monitor that endpoint on a schedule and receive confirmed-failure alerts through the channels available on your plan. Test the exact provider feature you use for a complete diagnosis.
How can I get alerted when Amazon goes down?
Add amazon.com to Visual Sentinel and its first check is free. To keep monitoring, start a 7-day trial (card required) or subscribe now: Solo and Starter check every 5 minutes, Business and Agency every 60 seconds, with email, push and chat alerts.
Where can I find Amazon outage context?
Amazon does not publish a reliable public status dashboard for every outage. The community outage reference below can help with extra context, but independent monitoring is still the safer signal. Visual Sentinel checks the public Amazon endpoint independently from EU and US. Paid Business and Agency plans support 60-second uptime checks.
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.
Often checked together with Amazon
Shopping, travel and delivery sites are separate services. Each page below has its own check, run every 3 minutes.