Amazon Experiencing Checkout Errors 12-7-2022
UPDATE
The outage lasted about 2 hours and garnered national news media attention.


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Where are all the national ecommerce and tech industry journalists when eBay fails to pay millions of sellers on time or any of the other near constant buyer and seller impacting glitches and technical misexecution on eBay? 🤨
Funny how #AmazonDown is an all hands national emergency for MSM tech/ecom reporters but the daily, never ending, business impacting constant glitches & technical misexecution on #eBay gets...crickets. 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ezQ7oiLEfI
— Liz Morton ~ Value Added Resource (@ValueAddedRS) December 7, 2022
Amazon shoppers report a massive service disruption preventing them from completing orders - when trying to complete checkout they receive an error message that says "sorry, we're experiencing unusually heavy traffic, please try again in a few seconds."

Reports are pouring in across social media and downdetector shows a major spike in problems as well.




Amazon's Marketplace Web Service Health Dashboard is also showing a current disruption in Orders API.

I'll update as soon as more information is available. In the mean time, if you're experiencing this issue, let us know in the comments below!