Amazon Down for Tens of Thousands of Users in Apparent Outage
Business Insider • • business
Key Points:
- Amazon experienced a significant outage on March 5, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues accessing its services, including checkout and payment failures and fluctuating product prices.
- Reports of problems surged around 2:30 p.m. ET, peaking at about 20,000 by 3:49 p.m., before gradually declining later in the evening.
- Amazon confirmed the issue was related to a software code deployment and assured customers that the website and app were running smoothly again by 8 p.m. ET.
- The outage was not linked to Amazon Web Services, unlike a previous AWS outage in October 2025 that affected multiple third-party apps.
- Amazon apologized for the inconvenience and thanked customers for their patience while
