BREAKING: Amazon.com Shopping Cart and Checkout Features Down in Outage

Users on Twitter and other social media platforms are reporting Amazon is having issues with its checkout, shopping cart, and other basic functionality — instead, users are seeing a variable error message screen showing the “dogs of Amazon,” pictures of Amazon employees’ dogs.

Amazon down on Saturday, July 3, 2021 — checkout functionality down, at least

Amazon down on Saturday, July 3, 2021 — checkout functionality down, at least

Lol, guess the outage might be pretty deep if the best they can retrieve from their servers at the moment are cute dog pics.

Earlier today, 200+ companies were hit in a reported ransomware attack, perhaps this is related in some way?

Twitter chatter about the Amazon checkout outage is increasing by the minute, although it doesn’t seem to be affecting ALL users worldwide.

Twitter chatter about the Amazon checkout outage is increasing by the minute, although it doesn’t seem to be affecting ALL users worldwide.

This is a developing story and more information will be added as it becomes available.