# Amazon.com is having major server issues **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 25, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453 "2020-11-25T23:27:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/1 "2020-11-25T23:27:38Z")
As a third-party seller, I wondered what was going on when my “Seller Central” page didn’t match up with my e-mails, where I get notifications of sales. Turns out there’s a major server outage that’s also affecting their streaming services, so if you use anything on Amazon and hit a roadblock, come back in a few hours and try it again. I didn’t pit it because it doesn’t appear to be anyone’s fault. Some people are suggesting that they’re blocking 3p sellers so they can divert people to their own warehouses, but I disagree. Why would they cut into their own commissions, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/2 "2020-11-25T23:33:55Z")
Amazon Web Services has been suffering issues all day – it’s affecting not only [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com), but any company that uses their servers. It doesn’t seem likely to be an intentional thing on Amazon’s part. > **[Amazon Web Services outage hobbles businesses](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-web-services-outage-stymies-businesses/2020/11/25/b54a6106-2f4f-11eb-860d-f7999599cbc2_story.html)** > > Outages at Amazon Web Services’ northern Virginia data centers left customers scrambling Wednesday to get their computing systems and web services working. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/3 "2020-11-26T08:37:21Z")
The reddit forum for employees has posts about the outages, they’re affecting internal operations as well. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/4 "2020-11-26T18:37:43Z")
Thanks for the heads up. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/5 "2020-11-26T19:55:10Z")
At least from my perspective, it’s been resolved. Some people have wondered if it’s because people wanted to get a leg up on Black Friday ordering, and the servers crashed, but I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amazon-com-is-having-major-server-issues/926453/6 "2020-11-26T20:50:45Z")
A friend of mine is a senior code developer for a shipping logistics company. I spoke with him this morning; he said that he was dealing with a number of their big clients yesterday, who use AWS for their web systems, who were having major problems.