Tens of thousands of Amazon users reported checkout failures on Thursday as outage tracking services logged a sharp and sustained spike in problem reports across the platform.
If your Amazon order refused to go through on today, you were far from alone.
A widespread outage hit the Amazon platform today, with user-reported problems climbing from a few thousand early in the morning to more than 23,000 by the time the incident peaked. The disruption centered primarily on the checkout process, which is the part of the platform that most directly affects anyone trying to complete a purchase, but the ripple effects extended well beyond the storefront before the day was out.
Amazon did not issue an immediate public comment on the outage at the time of publication.
How the outage unfolded, by the numbers
The disruption did not arrive all at once. Outage tracking services began logging a notable increase in reports around 11:09 a.m. ET on today, when problem counts…
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