https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577654/amazon-prime-day-website-down-deals-service-disruption > Amazon’s website is suffering an outage on Prime Day, the e-commerce giant’s made-up sales holiday designed to maximize orders and single-day revenue. According to DownDetector.com, Amazon has been experiencing issues since around 3:05PM ET today, with a large spike in reports in the last 10 minutes. Prime Day officially began at 3PM ET / 12PM PT.