By CHRIS MELORE, ASSISTANT SCIENCE EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

Published: 18:27 GMT, 26 February 2025 | Updated: 20:48 GMT, 26 February 2025

Amazon’s website, which receives billions of visitors each month, reportedly went down Wednesday afternoon with major technical issues 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.’

‘Trying to checkout and just a loop of new suggestions and never able to get to the correct page,’ one commenter said.

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

The major outage hotspots centered 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 – that’s over $1.7 billion per day.

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

In January 2025, Amazon was visited 2.7 billion times, including both desktop and mobile shoppers, according to similarweb.com.

As of 2pm ET, Amazon had not addressed the outage on their social media channels.

This is a developing story, more updates to come.

Website tracker Downdetector reported a spike in Amazon.com outages around noon ET on Wednesday

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

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