Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems
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Isn't that the same time Ars was throwing Moonshark SOX errors?
Someone needs hugs!
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I've been (unsuccessfully) trying to check out my 200 pack of retro gaming stickers...
This type of interruption to commerce is unacceptable!
This type of interruption to commerce is unacceptable!
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I wouldn't really expect the AWS health dashboard (linked from the article) to even mention if the retail Amazon site was down. Unless it was an outage affecting other AWS customers.
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The site loads for me (SE USA), but it's weird looking and some stuff, like my shopping/reading lists, are not showing up.
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Ah, that would explain the prices not being displayed and a link being broken...
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Given a couple AWS datacenters have been tagged by Iranian strikes this week, the outage might be caused by Drone Network 'Splosions.
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vedekhaliwell
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Testing at 1:17 p.m. 03/05/26: Amazon loads just fine. I can see my orders and even place one.
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I noticed this in the app earlier when I tried to checkout, and it showed a page that just says "Sorry, something went wrong on our end" with a picture of a dog and a link (I assume it's a link; I haven't clicked it) labeled "Meet the dogs of Amazon". It's a different dog every time. Extremely weird and patronizing. Do they think seeing pictures of dogs will make me less annoyed at their software failing yet again?
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Gnafu the Great
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Please don't modify people's quotes, even for silly jokes
Fixed that for you.
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Downdetector shows tons of reports of AWS issues as well:
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
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The shopping homepage loaded up just fine for me but it looked really weird because I realized I hadn't seen it in a couple of years and they've completely redesigned. It's amazing how easy it was to just cancel Prime and buy things elsewhere once I just did it.
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I was shopping on the site and when I clicked on an item it said I first had to put the item in my cart to "view product details" such....the price!
I thought it was just another evil f'in ploy and maybe that's what it is. But making a customer put an item in the basket to see details seems like one of those moves that will backfire.
I thought it was just another evil f'in ploy and maybe that's what it is. But making a customer put an item in the basket to see details seems like one of those moves that will backfire.
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AWS Status page only shows that the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region (ME-CENTRAL-1) is "disrupted". As well as Bahrain is "impacted". Last update on each is from 3/3...
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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This makes me question the ability to load balance when a region is down. If this is just one region if someone targeted 2 regions in North America the absolute crap show that would happen would be soon to be a motion picture film worthy.
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They've been using dogs on their 404 page since at least 2006:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zarastone/2017/05/02/amazons-404-error-pages-are-pup-licious/
There's been a long trend to make unique/funny 404 pages. I guess the general idea is that they should be rare enough that you briefly amuse a visitor to your site. That breaks down a bit when your website crashes and starts displaying it for nearly every page.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080129003417/http://www.lunametrics.com/blog/2006/02/18/broken-links/
https://blog.prototypr.io/your-404-...amples-that-are-totally-on-brand-f7d008dd4079
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I dunno, pictures of dogs tend to make me happy. I like dogs!
Puppies would be even better.
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Iran is attacking those it can reach who are responsible for the current war against them. I would imagine that Amazon likely has already pulled their amazon.com operations out of those two data centers. You don't want your operations running in the Middle East right now on anyone's cloud.
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Yeah, I was at a retailer when Amazon introduced the dogs. Management decided we needed a cute 404 page too, so they tasked Marketing with making one. What they came up with was really cutesy but basically boiled down to "we don't have enough server capacity to keep the site up." IT was very unhappy about that and it only lasted until the next build was pushed out.
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That sometimes happens for items that the manufacturer has put a "minimum advertised price" on. To circumvent it, the site doesn't show you the price until you put it in the cart. I've seen it on other site like Best Buy and NewEgg over the years, typically for a really good deal on something.
Of course, right now, Amazon seems to be showing that for nearly everything, so something's failed in terms of showing the price and/or passing the "is this lower than MAP?" check, and it's failed into a weird state. I'm guessing then the programmed it, they thought that if the page couldn't confirm whether the price was higher than MAP, it'd be safer to assume it didn't and not piss off a manufacturer and attract possible legal action, but didn't anticipate nearly every check failing.
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Why not? Right now the White House is Vibe-Warring straight into production...
“This could be the first war ever launched based on vibes.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/arts/television/late-night-america-iran.html
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f'D up beyond all repair - This one seems repairable in general terms.
SNAFU (Sit normal - All f'D up) is perhaps more accurate.
BOHICA - bend over here it comes again - seems appropriate for this entire timeline to be honest.
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