(MENAFN- Live Mint) Over 6,000 users in the US on Thursday morning (Indian time) reported that the Amazon website was down, as per Downdetector.

Screenshot showing spike in outage reports related to Amazon in the US.

As many as 6,630 reports of outages affecting the e-commerce platform were submitted to the outage tracking website.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) also seemed to be experiencing issues, with a few hundred users reporting outages over the past 24 hours.

As of writing this, 197 reports of outages had been submitted with regard to AWS, but there was no outage of the scale that hit the e-commerce platform.

Screenshot showing outage reports on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Amazon, however, is yet to comment.

Aftershocks of a major outage?

Thursday's outage comes a couple of weeks after a major outage in AWS caused on October 21 caused turmoil across thousands of websites, including immensely popular apps such as Snapchat and Reddit.

AWS hosts applications and computer processes for companies around the world, and the disruption knocked thousands of people offline and halted others from conducting normal everyday tasks like paying shopkeepers or changing their airline tickets.

In fact, the AWS outage in October was the largest since the mega CrowdStrike outage of 2024 that paralyzed tech applications across airports, hospitals and and banks.

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The October 2025 outage lasted a whopping 15 hours and disrupted the operations of hundreds of companies relying on the cloud service, from Apple to Epic Games.

It was labelled Amazon's worst outage since 2021 by experts and analysts.

“The outage will likely fuel customers wanting to spread their infrastructure between multiple clouds, which could be a positive for smaller vendors like Google,” said Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Anurag Rana was quoted as saying by Reuters at the time.

October also saw another major cloud service outage, with Microsoft's Azure going down at the end of the month.

That outage too affected a range of industries worldwide, and particularly hit flight services, with Alaska Airlines grounding its fleet and London's Heathrow Airport experiencing issues with its website.

While these recent outages are hardly the first to hit cloud services, their impact underscored the vulnerability of the world's interconnected systems.

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