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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Amazon users through our website.

• Website Down (48%)
• Errors (27%)
• Sign in (25%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Amazon outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Romeoville	Website Down	5 hours ago
Kefar Yona	Errors	19 hours ago
Monterrey	Website Down	20 hours ago
Monroe	Website Down	1 day ago
San Jose	Website Down	1 day ago
Santa Cruz	Sign in	2 days ago

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  yourclouddude (@yourclouddude) reported 4 minutes ago

  Why is your website still slow even after upgrading your EC2 instance? 🌍⚡ Let's deep dive into Amazon CloudFront. 🧩 The Setup A team launched their web application: • EC2 for the backend • S3 for static assets • Route 53 for DNS The application worked. But users outside their region complained: • Slow page loads • High image latency • Long download times They upgraded EC2. Nothing changed. 🚨 What Went Wrong The server wasn't the bottleneck. Distance was. Every request traveled thousands of kilometers to reach the origin server. Even a powerful server can't beat network latency. 🔍 The Real Insight Most people think CloudFront is just a CDN. It's much more than that. CloudFront moves your content closer to your users. Instead of every request hitting your origin... Requests are served from the nearest AWS Edge Location. Less distance. Less latency. Better user experience. 🛠 The Better Design They redesigned the architecture: • CloudFront in front of S3 & EC2 • Cached static assets at edge locations • Enabled compression (Gzip/Brotli) • Configured cache behaviors by content type • Added Origin Access Control (OAC) for secure S3 access • Used HTTPS with AWS Certificate Manager Now: • Images loaded faster • Global latency dropped dramatically • Origin traffic decreased • Infrastructure costs were reduced 💡 When CloudFront Becomes Powerful CloudFront isn't just about speed. It also provides: • Global content delivery • DDoS protection (AWS Shield integration) • Edge caching • HTTPS termination • Reduced origin load • Lower bandwidth costs 🎯 Final Lesson A faster server doesn't always mean a faster application. Sometimes... The biggest performance improvement comes from moving the content—not upgrading the compute. That's the real power of CloudFront.

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  Dark Witch from the Hightower: dinard🐓 (@DinardTheSilly) reported 5 minutes ago

  @ANerdNamedJerry What is the problem why do you think I’m trying to **** the Amazon bot

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  Felix (@Compoundingzero) reported 6 minutes ago

  The Sears failure wasn't a speed problem or a vision problem. It was an imagination problem of a very specific kind Sears couldn't imagine its assets as a system. It managed each one as a standalone business: the catalog division, the financial services arm, the retail stores, the owned brands. Each was optimized individually. Each had its own P&L, its own leadership, its own strategy. The sum of the parts was never allowed to become greater than the parts Amazon's genius wasn't inventing something new. It was imagining what a system of Sears's assets could become — and then building that system from scratch because Sears hadn't. Jeff Bezos looked at the catalog era and saw the blueprint. He didn't build Amazon by ignoring Sears's history. He built it by taking Sears's history more seriously than Sears did But here's the contrarian that hurts: Sears's biggest mistake wasn't the assets it neglected. It was the assets it sold Under Eddie Lampert, Sears sold Craftsman to Stanley Black & Decker for $900M. Sold DieHard to Advance Auto Parts. Kenmore died in the process. These weren't just brand names — they were trusted product lines with repeat-purchase categories and proprietary distribution. The kind of assets you build loyalty programs around. The kind of assets that, paired with e-commerce and modern supply chain, could have been a premium DTC brand empire Lampert sold the future to fund the present. The financial engineering that was supposed to save Sears — real estate plays, hedging strategies, REIT spinoffs — destroyed the very assets that could have actually saved it The lesson isn't "don't sell assets in a crisis." It's "identify which assets are the future before the crisis arrives — because in a crisis, every asset looks like a liability and everything gets sold." The AI equivalent is identifiable in real time: any company that is monetizing or selling data assets, customer relationships, or proprietary expertise to fund short-term performance is doing the Lampert move. Optimizing the financial statement by destroying the strategic position Craftsman is now thriving at Stanley Black & Decker. Kenmore lives on as a brand Sears no longer owns. The assets were always valuable. Sears just stopped believing it deserved to have them

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  handsomejack (@hansumjak) reported 11 minutes ago

  @TheOnlyDSC All that trouble for worthless Amazon crap?

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  Ramkishan choudhary (@RKKataniya) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp @Sky_Blue91041 No solution till now Order number 40560177340182704 I ordered American eagle men casual pant from Amazon but I have a size issue so I want to return my order please help in create return. Please help @AmazonHelp

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  Cloud (@cloudrako_o) reported 15 minutes ago

  @nexuskeeper1_ buy the same one off amazon and send the broken one back

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  Don Prignano (@prignano_don) reported 16 minutes ago

  @ClownWorld I've done this myself after people down the block left their Amazon boxes in my dumpster, they didn't even remove their address label. If they would have broken them down I might have let it go but they didn't so I brought them to their home and left them on the front porch.

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  blake (@dvsnbell) reported 19 minutes ago

  I ordered a blu ray from amazon and it came broken just nice

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  Gluppo (@GluppShittoo) reported 19 minutes ago

  @RunawayWarming @CarolinaLion2 Lulas pretty much stopped chopping down the Amazon for farmland and during that time, farming produce has exploded

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  On Shoring America (@J_Vito_B) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DawnENelson1 @VBierschwale @WhiteHouse Exactly — a $10M fine is a rounding error and a one-time headline. It's discretionary, litigated, and forgotten in a quarter. That's why the fix isn't bigger fines, it's a recurring, formula-based levy tied to a measured ratio, not a DOJ settlement: UCLR™ = U.S. Citizen Workers ÷ Total Headcount (incl. offshore, visa, green card, OPT/CPT, and AI labor equivalents). The tiered U.S. Foreign Labor Levy applies automatically based on where a company's ratio falls — every reporting period, every company, no case-by-case enforcement discretion. Same logic for the AI Utilization Levy (8–25% of documented cost savings) and the Student Enrollment Levy on universities. Consistency isn't a policy choice under this model — it's structural. The levy is pulled from data already flowing through IRS/DOL/DHS/E-Verify once the NAICS codes are adopted. No investigation needed, no settlement negotiated. That's the difference between "Amazon got fined once" and "Amazon reports its ratio every quarter and pays accordingly, forever." One Executive Order gets the measurement started. Congress does the levy after that.

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  Sudo Sama (@sudo_sama) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Konantt_ Oh, I thought my government was blocking it for whatever reason lol, btw the amazon data center in kuwait went kaboom, maybe that is the issue

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  Hound&Al 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 (@hound_al) reported 24 minutes ago

  @BloodNelsons Got one from Amazon - was easier in the end. The “rental” from the GP surgery was more than the one from Amazon cost. Brought down my BP with hawthorn berry extract. Made some of my own hawthorn tincture last year which seemed to work as well.

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  🍁Chris 404 (@canadachris404) reported 25 minutes ago

  @cmsinvests It really is… this is arguably the world’s top company. Only other argument is Amazon or Apple… Google is easily a $400 stock today, should be $450 by end of year. We’re so early to the AI monetization, these hyperscalers are being held down so hard but when the capex does slow a bit a projects come online - are you kidding me? Buying it at these levels will be viewed the same way we look back at someone buying at $100 a share.

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  Lisa Robel (@lisarobel) reported 25 minutes ago

  Book Review: Archenemies by @JWenner_Author Jody Wenner ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Gemma is a mess and so is her life. She is haunted and spurred to action by the thought of a local landmark, built by her elderly and dwindling father, being destroyed. She sets out on a mission to save it and saves herself instead. I had a lot of problems with this book but now that I’ve finished it, I think I’m looking back fondly on it! The main character (MC), Gemma, is a mess. She works at an assisted living facility in her hometown by day and by night (and every other waking minute TBH), she plots to save a wooden pedestrian bridge her father told her he built. She sees it as a representation of him, as she struggles with his increasing dementia. Along the way we meet the residents of the small town and the facility. For the first 40% of this book, I struggled. I hate the main character. I find her budding love interest unlikely. Her parents make me mad. I feel sad for the people in the facility and wonder just WHAT is going on here? There was a lot of whining and wheel spinning. I skimmed to about 60% through, each skim becoming slower and slower. I start to FINALLY understand the MC’s motivation. More importantly, the reader starts to see the MC through someone else’s eyes, other than her own. The ending is fairly satisfying, with everything wrapped up a little too neatly. In the secret parts of my soul, I love a good wrap-up but the cynical part of me wonders, “Is it really all that easy?” It’s not but this book overlooks that and I think we are all okay with it! What I Liked ⭐All of Gemma’s extended family ⭐The residents of the assisted living facility. They are fun, vibrant and feel real. ⭐Leo. I like him as a person, character and metaphor. ⭐The reality of municipal projects … if you can get it done faster and cheaper and no tax dollars lost, then that’s what will happen! ⭐The way the REAL story snuck up on you. So let me stop my ratings here and talk about that. This isn’t a story about a pedestrian bridge at all. It’s a story about a woman who is forced to cross from one part of her life to another. In this material world, the bridge Gemma is fighting to save is rickety, unsafe, unloved and unused. In her inside world, Gemma hasn’t even come to the water’s edge yet when we first meet her. She has no idea how to get from Point A to Point B in her crusade or in her life. The Bridge consumes her completely. As the story goes on, Gemma meets Leo, who has been hired to dismantle the bridge. And also her walls, apparently. They work together and each of them is happy with the outcome at the conclusion of the book. What I Didn’t Like ➖The MC, Gemma, comes off as a loony toon early on in the book. There is little to no explanation of WHY she has done this, other than her dad built it. I was a good ways in and one of my notes is “WTF with this BRIDGE??? WHY?” ➖The Redwood Bridge. I hate it. It’s a bridge, not a person, but it is one-hundred percent a main character in this story. I’d like to hear the story from The Bridge’s perspective! ➖It’s very slick and moves quickly. I would call this a “light read,” in the same vein of Judy Blume’s books for young adults. There are a lot of really, really heavy things going on here but you don’t really realize it because the story is moving so quickly and isn’t that a shame? Wenner’s characters aren’t as well written as Blume’s but you get that same vibe. As a reader, I feel like a stone skipping along on a smooth surface. I’m enjoying the ride, I’m having an okay but weird time and I can see there is something much deeper here than just my journey. I almost feel like there is a mythological reference I’m missing here. Or maybe something about how only the person who is meant to travel takes the journey and we can’t cart everyone along. Maybe we are meant to be confused by her devotion to this dumb bridge in the same way we’re confused by our devotion to dumb things. I don’t know. I wish the author went deeper, away from romantic comedy. Anyhow, I’d recommend this book if you’re willing to get through the first 30% of it hating the MC and the stupid bridge. You might love them! They just both seem like a lot of work to me! I got Archenemies on Amazon. It’s currently available through Kindle Unlimited or paperback ($12.99). I found the book via a random gratitude post on X by the author. I thought the title was Frenemies (I do that a lot, ask me about angry nudists v. any nudist disappointment) but it still looked fun. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I’m calling this a sneaky four-star. I think the writing is solid and the story is good, if you can believe that a woman would obsess over a bridge. There is something about this story, however, that lingers with you and that’s worth an extra star.

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  lord pretty flacko ⚔️ (@smdcapital) reported 26 minutes ago

  $spcx reaches all time low at $115, down 50% from the day headlines said "spacex now valued more than microsoft and amazon!!" and when teslaconomics said anyone trying to short spacex at $3T is an idiot! ultimate giga super saiyan top signal new generation of investors who got 'musked'

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  The Techno Optimist (@technooptimist1) reported 29 minutes ago

  .@JeffBezos - 'we're going to space to fix Earth'. "Our long-term vision, our dream, that all the polluting industry can be done off-Earth, if space travel gets reliable enough and inexpensive enough, and we can get materials from asteroids and near-Earth objects and the Moon, then this garden planet can be returned to its pre-industrial revolution state. This is the only way in which the world is worse today than it was 500 years ago. Everything is better today... and the one exception is the natural world. And we can actually have both. We go to space not necessarily just for space, but for Earth." — Jeff Bezos, Founder & Executive Chairman of @amazon, Founder of @blueorigin

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  House Father (@haus_dad) reported 32 minutes ago

  Okay in light of some mtg community happenings today: 🧵 1. Don’t action emails from a domain you don’t recognize. Amazon is not going to contact you about an issue with your account from an email @ amazon-supportcases dot com, they will contact you from Amazon dot com 1/3

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  RoadTour.Net Magazine (@RoadTourMag) reported 34 minutes ago

  @AmazonHelp The point is, we are not going through all that. We don’t work for you. It’s been reported to you all via social media with evidence. It’s not our fault that you all don’t have systems in place to document issues like this. You all have been notified. We didn’t have to do that.

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  Amazon Help (@AmazonHelp) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Samantadas_ @amazon @amazonIN We would request you to follow up with our Accounts Specialist team. They are the right team to assist you regarding the issue you are facing. Please don’t provide your order/account details as we consider them to be personal information. Our X page is visible to public. -Tanmaya

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  Robert McLaws (@robertmclaws) reported 41 minutes ago

  @FrancoisChauba1 @ycombinator Yeah from that standpoint it makes sense, in theory you’re not warming it more. Yet water absorbs that energy differently than glass and silicon does. So wouldn’t panels heat the surrounding air more and bounce sunlight off the surface in a way that would be more damaging to birds? That’s not what I was referring to tho, it’s this: your nuclear response brings up issues of international waters, defensibility, and hacking. It creates a sovereign target vulnerability where none previously existed. So a passing ship might shoot up your panels or drop trash on them. Or North Korea could send a sub and compromise it in a way that would take a week or more to get to depending on location. It’s all a great idea in theory until you have to operate one continuously with SLAs. That remote and you’re either going to tap a fiber cable or use Starlink. Who will gladly carry your service but if Starlink can do it anyway in space with fewer sovereign issues then why does anyone need you? Iran blowing up an Amazon datacenter in UAE means this is not theoretical.

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  Rhianlovesbooks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@RhianReads1) reported 41 minutes ago

  @flankboff @AmazonUK Friday! I only ordered from amazon because they've never let me down here, Evri dump parcels outside on a busy pathway all the time 🙄 And fake evri accounts don't follow me or ask me to dm

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  Michael Faries (@michaelfaries) reported 42 minutes ago

  @BaronDestructo @scoutingdad2022 Will say it again and again: There were two highly-trusted, well-respected Stargate content creators who were part of Martin Gero's Nov 2025 Amazon Prime YouTube channel official announcement: Darren Sumner (Gateworld) and David Read (Dial The Gate). ONLY TWO. Wonder why? Both Darren and David earned the trust and respect of industry professionals, like Gero, Joseph Mallozzi, Brad Wright and others. Yes, insider sources can *not* always be disclosed. But tabloid reporting and best guesses are *not* journalism. It's click-bait garbage. Opinions? That's not the issue, if identified as such. However, reporting rumors or interpretations as facts? Utter garbage. The world learned about Martin Gero's #Stargate continuation series from Gero, Mallozzi, Wright, Sumner and Read. Professional to their core. I won't call out the offending podcast(s) by name, but I look forward to reading official news when it is published. For any professional journalists, content creators, editors, and producers out there, if you get accurate, name-sourced comments and quotes, then you will get MAJOR CLICK THROUGHS/TRAFFIC to your sites/stories. Trust me, this #Stargate community is a blessed bunch of people who just want Truth. (The Ark of Truth... couldn't resist!) Sorry, Mr. Mallozzi. It's a sore subject for many of us out here, too. We know there's a LOT you would like to be able to talk about--but you remain a true professional. Thank you. We understand. And it must be VERY frustrating at times, in ways that none of us can understand, given legal contracts, agreements, professional obligations, etc. #SaveStargate

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  MichaelJ (@sarothias) reported 42 minutes ago

  @SienClark I wonder if it’s a distributer issue more than Amazon?Lotta people on Reddit posting their copy is delayed by 1-7 days. Mine still shows tomorrow but we shall see. Personally I’ve been using Amazon for like 90% of my preorders for 15+ years and rarely ever have delays.

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  All TThe gear no idea 🏍️🚕🚛💨 (@HaightonPaul) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Piercey1980 @amazon If he had apologised and accepted responsibility I wouldn’t have done. But I don’t want rats down the street eating thrown out food thank you very much

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  GinnyM (@PatriotXV11) reported 50 minutes ago

  @ScottPresler Because they are all making money hand over fist. Look at Nancy Pelosi. She has a more successful stock portfolio than any wiz on Wall Street. Those insider tips such as buy Amazon before they locked us down come in handy!

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  Stoffel 🇺🇸 🤘😂👍 (@JediJesus444) reported 50 minutes ago

  @McTomPSU @Canes Did you READ my comment? I did READ it but it was vague. There's many streaming services available that you can only access by having an account through a cable or satellite provider. To watch ESPN live games you have to have a TV package from cable or satellite that's $80-$100 or the HULU premium package at $80. I guess you don't know, but plenty of people don't want or need these ridiculous and overpriced packages that you're basically paying to watch commercials and paying for tins of garbage that you dont even watch. I have youtube premium, amazon prime, and HBO. That's enough for everything I want to watch except I can't get enough hockey besides the few games HBO shows. So, yeah, I stand by my comment 💯💯💯 I hope they provide a way for the thousands like me who don't buy into the nonsense trash TV packages from cable and satellite and we an have an option to just watch their channel or program. Fanduel last year was the first time that we had that opportunity, but who knows what will happen with this new endeavor. Is that dumbed down enough?

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  Joyce Zenner (@CompellaSearch) reported 51 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele Fascinating Brian. I try to be consistent with the tips to mitigate the issues. I’d like to find some reliable blue light blocking readers. The ones I wear now, I bought off Amazon. I’m not sure if they work…

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  Moar (@chimkinpls) reported 54 minutes ago

  @H1BExpose Texas investigators need to be going after Amazon, Tesla, Chase, Citi, AT&T, T-Mobile, Cognizant, Microsoft, etc. Companies like these are responsible for hundreds of thousands of H-1Bs. Going after these small H-1B body shops is good for optics, but doesn't hit the real problem.

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  BigFire (@BigFire97827414) reported 54 minutes ago

  @DaddyWarpig They're testing how much patience Amazon have. Unfortunately for Amazon, Jeff Bezos' fix-it man @davill is currently a wee busy with fixing @blueorigin right now.

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  Ankit Verma (@ankit_in_tech) reported 55 minutes ago

  System Design Explained #4 — Why Do We Need a Backend Server? So far in this series, we've learned that a Client sends a request to a Server, and the Server sends back a response. But have you ever wondered... Where does all this data actually come from? When you open @instagram, where are all the posts stored? When you log into @amazon, where is your account information stored? When you order food on @Swiggy, where is your order saved? The answer is simple. Inside a Database. Most modern applications are divided into three layers. Client → Server → Database Each layer has its own responsibility. And together, they make applications secure, scalable, and reliable. Let's understand each one. 1. The Client (Frontend) The Client is what the user directly interacts with. Examples include: Google Chrome, Firefox, React applications, Android apps, iOS apps, etc. Whenever you click a button... fill out a login form... or upload a photo... you're interacting with the Client. Its job is actually very simple. Take input from the user. Send requests to the Server. Display whatever response comes back. Notice something important. The Client doesn't permanently store application data. It simply asks for data and displays it. Think of it as the presentation layer. 2. The Server (Backend) The Server is the brain of the application. It receives requests from the Client. Processes them. Communicates with the Database. And finally sends a response back. Unlike the Client, the Server is responsible for making decisions. Some of the major responsibilities of the Server include: - Business Logic Suppose you're shopping on Amazon. You buy three products. A coupon gives you 20% off. GST needs to be added. Delivery charges depend on your city. Who performs all these calculations? The Server. This collection of rules and calculations is called Business Logic. - Authentication & Authorization Authentication answers: "Who are you?" Authorization answers: "What are you allowed to do?" For example, Instagram first checks whether you're logged in. Then it checks whether you're allowed to edit that particular post. These checks happen on the Server. - Database Communication The Server is the only component that talks directly to the Database. Whenever data needs to be saved... updated... deleted... or fetched... the Server performs those operations. The Client never communicates with the Database directly. We'll soon understand why. 3. The Database The Database is where all the application's data lives. For example, Users, Passwords (stored securely as hashes), Posts, Comments, Orders, Payments; Everything is stored inside the Database. But here's something many beginners misunderstand. A Database is not intelligent. It doesn't decide whether a user is allowed to perform an action. It doesn't validate permissions. It doesn't apply business rules. Its job is simple. Store data. Retrieve data. Update data. Delete data. Nothing more. It only responds when the Server asks it to.