Amazon.com went down for some users on Thursday afternoon for approximately 20 minutes before being restored.
Users trying to access the Amazon website as well as the mobile app at around 2:20 p.m. ET were greeted with error messages.
Site checkers also listed the domain Amazon.com as down.
Amazon is having issues since 2:20 PM EST. https://t.co/vBmCkYBOtP RT if it's down for you as well #Amazondown— DownDetector (@downdetector) March 10, 2016
About 20 minutes later the website was accessible by Mashable, and many users reported on Twitter that they could access Amazon.com once again.
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During the outage, many users took to Twitter to vent their frustration:
Twitter buzz: Amazon is down!!!!
It was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.— M. K. Wiseman (@FaublesFables) March 10, 2016
While Amazon was down, I literally had no way to know if I might like a thing very closely related to some other thing I already like.— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) March 10, 2016
Amazon is down and Adam Levine is having a baby. pic.twitter.com/NaZeQsMn0P— Jennifer Hoopes (@DumplingJenn) March 10, 2016
How much money does @amazon lose every second when the site is down?— Mathew Garrett (@moweatherguy) March 10, 2016
Amazon is down. I'm sharpening my spear, and building a fort at work. The end is coming. I will ride to Vahalla on two day shipping!— The Last Paladin (@alanbahr) March 10, 2016
Here’s something I don’t think I’ve ever seen: Amazon is down.— Dan Goodin (@dangoodin001) March 10, 2016
Maybe Amazon is down because they’re about to announce a new Fire Phone.— Matt Weinberger (@gamoid) March 10, 2016
.@amazon is down pic.twitter.com/12souppeXY— Raychelle Burks (@DrRubidium) March 10, 2016
@amazon IS DOWN! I REPEAT! #amazon is DOWN! :(— Steve Jenkins (@sjjenkins) March 10, 2016
NOOOO ITS THE APOCALYPSE AMAZON IS DOWN I REPEAT AMAZON IS DOWN #ENDOFTHEWORLD— Yūrei Otaku (@YureiOtakuGame) March 10, 2016
Amazon is down and Donald Trump could become #POTUS. #TheEndIsNear #apocalypse #armageddon pic.twitter.com/yMG34cd2HO— Mark Lamprecht ن (@MarkALamprecht) March 10, 2016
Although Amazon.com went down, it appears Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud hosting service that many major web services depend on -- including Foursquare, Pinterest and Yelp -- is working normally, according to the AWS Status Dashboard.
Representatives for Amazon didn't immediately respond to Mashable's request for comment.