If you were having trouble shopping on Amazon or loading your playlists on Amazon Music on Thursday, you weren’t alone. For more than three hours today Down detector The number of people reporting problems with checkout, search and login increased significantly. The issue seems to be affecting both the site and mobile apps. But an Amazon spokesperson said the edge That the issues have now been resolved.
“We’re sorry that some customers experienced temporary issues while shopping,” Amazon spokeswoman Jenny Bryant said in a statement. “We have resolved the issue, which was related to the deployment of software code, and the website and app are now running smoothly.”
Several the edge When there were problems, the staff dealt with the problems themselves. Clicking on many products resulted in a “Sorry, something went wrong” error, and even the pages that loaded were not showing the price. Users reported repeatedly being logged out of their accounts when trying to check out or load their carts. Even the Amazon.com parts that were working seemed to load slowly.
The company is dealing with an AWS outage. Bahrain And United Arab Emirates due to drone strikes by the Iranian military, but there has been no word of a more widespread shutdown in the US or elsewhere.
Update March 5: Added a comment from Amazon saying things are fine.



