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Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage
Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat and caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world.AWS said it was seeing increased "error rates and latencies" for multiple services.

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What caused the AWS outage? Is Fortnite, Roblox, Facebook back up?
What is the AWS incident? Everything we know about issue with Snapchat, Fortnite, more
Amazon Web Services outage explained: How long it lasted, impacted users, companies and how it was resolved - FAQs
A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted access to several major digital platforms, including financial apps, AI tools, and popular entertainment services.

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Massive Amazon cloud outage resolved after disrupting internet use worldwide
Amazon says systems are back online after global internet outage
Amazon outage 'resolved' as Snapchat and banks among sites impacted
A new series of "cascading failures" may have arisen after the initial outage, according to Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at Notre Dame University.

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What is AWS outage incident status now? Is service still down for Canvas, Chime, Reddit, Snapchat?

Is AWS still down today? What is AWS outage incident status? What we know on services affected or website issues at Canvas, Chime, Reddit, Snapchat and more.

Battlefield 6 and Fortnite recovering as AWS outage takes out the likes of Roblox, Wordle, and Epic Games Store

Games of all types, from Fortnite to Wordle to Roblox have been affected by the AWS outage. Problems started at about 7.30am BST (that's 2.30am ET) when gamign services started having huge spikes on the outage-detecting website Downdetector.

Amazon's AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.

Cybersecurity expert offers blunt verdict on AWS outage

In making sense of all the hullabaloo, cybersecurity expert David Kennedy just dropped a curt and pertinent take on the AWS outage.

AWS outage crashes Amazon, Prime Video, Fortnite, Perplexity and more

AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.

Amazon Web Services suffers a worldwide outage, leaving millions of Fortnite, Roblox, and other platform users without access

The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.

What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.
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