Amazon goes DOWN as chaotic global outage leaves millions of customers saying checkout is not working

Amazon’s website, which receives billions of visitors each month, is reportedly down worldwide.

According to the website Downdetector, Amazon.com saw a spike in outages just after noon ET on Wednesday.

The vast majority of the problems were being reported during checkout, with 91 percent of shoppers saying they weren’t able to buy the items in their carts.

Many of the shoppers’ comments to the outage-tracking website simply stated, ‘can’t check out.’

Other Amazon users said they had issues using their online shopping cart and the mobile app.

The major outage hotspots center around New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. 

Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, saw their net sales grow by 11 percent in 2024, totaling $638 billion.

More than half of that traffic takes place in the United States alone ($387.5 billion), according to the company’s investor relations statement. 

This is a developing story, more updates to come.