Is Amazon down right now?
HostTracker's monitoring network reached amazon.com and completed a full check without errors. It has been up for 15d 14h.
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Incident history
LAST 90 DAYSNo incidents recorded in the last 90 days.
About Amazon outages
Written by the HostTracker monitoring team · updated from live probe data.
Amazon is really several products sharing one brand - the retail storefront, the mobile app, Prime Video, and the AWS cloud that a large share of the rest of the internet runs on - and they fail independently. That distinction matters more here than for almost any other service: when people say "Amazon is down" they may mean they can't complete a checkout, or they may mean an AWS region has taken half their favourite sites offline with it. Retail outages tend to be short and traffic-driven, clustering around Prime Day, Black Friday and major product launches, when concurrency on the cart and checkout paths peaks far above normal. Because Amazon serves through a dense CDN, a genuine outage often shows up as failures in some regions while others load fine, which single-location testing cannot distinguish from a problem on your own network.
Common causes of Amazon downtime
Checkout and payment-path failures during peak shopping events, when cart concurrency spikes far above the everyday baseline
CDN or edge-node problems that make the storefront slow or unreachable from particular countries and ISPs while it works normally elsewhere
Account and sign-in issues that block order history and one-click purchasing while product pages still render for signed-out visitors
AWS regional incidents, which take down third-party sites that depend on Amazon's cloud even when amazon.com's own storefront is perfectly healthy
Not sure whether it's Amazon or your own connection? Read the full breakdown in our website down checker guide for a general walkthrough of diagnosing any outage, from DNS failures to expired certificates.
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Questions people ask during an outage
The live probe run on this page tests amazon.com from a broad sample of HostTracker's 300+-location monitoring network - many independent networks at the same moment, rather than just your own connection. If every location fails to reach it, the outage is real and affects everyone; if only a few locations fail while most load normally, the problem is local to those regions or networks rather than Amazon being fully down. A single refresh from your own browser can never make that distinction, because it only ever tests from one vantage point on one network.
Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.
No - as of the most recent check, amazon.com is responding normally to HostTracker's monitoring network, and has been up for 15d 14h. Over the last 24 hours it recorded 100.00% uptime across 0 incidents. If it is failing for you specifically, the cause is local - your network, DNS cache, or a regional route - and the live probe results above will show which locations, if any, are affected.
The quickest way to tell is to open a product page in a private/incognito window, signed out. Amazon's catalogue pages are served to anonymous visitors from cache, so if those load normally while your signed-in session fails, the problem sits in the account/session layer rather than the storefront - that can be an Amazon-side authentication incident or something local like a corrupted cookie. If the anonymous page fails too, run the live multi-location check on this page: broad failures across many countries mean a real outage, while failures from only one or two regions point at a routing or CDN-edge problem between you and Amazon rather than Amazon itself.
Usually not. AWS and the Amazon retail site are operated as separate services with separate failure domains, and the far more common pattern is an AWS regional incident that leaves the storefront untouched while breaking a long list of unrelated websites and apps that host with AWS. This is why "Amazon is down" trends on social media during events where amazon.com itself never stopped working. If your own site or a service you depend on broke, check the specific service rather than the Amazon storefront - and if you run infrastructure on AWS, monitoring your own endpoints from outside your cloud region is the only way to see what your customers see during a regional event.
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