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Amazon Down as Firm Suffers Global Outage
- On March 5, 2026, Amazon's e-commerce website was down in the U.S., with over 21,700 reports by 3:48 p.m. ET, according to Downdetector.
- Shortly after 1:30 p.m. EST March 5, the outage began around 2:00 p.m. ET; the cause is unclear, and Amazon has not confirmed specific problems despite drone strikes earlier in the week damaging United Arab Emirates and Bahrain data centers.
- Downdetector data show many reports focused on checkout and product-page failures, with Amazon users reporting login, checkout, browsing failures, and fluctuating prices.
- As of mid-afternoon, over 16,000 users were still reporting problems, and an Amazon spokesperson apologized, saying it is working to resolve the issue.
- The pattern of outages this week included social platforms and major retailers; Ars Technica confirmed product pages and the homepage sometimes failed to load after Facebook outages on March 3.
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Amazon outage: Here's what we know so far
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Amazon.com is on the mend after experiencing technical issues
Amazon's website appears to be stabilizing after experiencing technical issues that kept users from logging in and prevented prices from displaying correctly. DownDetector reported a spike of outage reports around 2PM ET, but as of 5:56PM ET, user complaints have fallen significantly.The Amazon.com homepage currently loads, and Engadgets staff have been able to load product pages and view prices without any problems. During the peak of the site’…
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