Amazon, AWS and the outage
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The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.
The internet is apparently falling apart at the seams today with major outages reported across games like Fortnite, Roblox, and more following issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you've been running into issues getting various sites and games to load today,
Websites and services across the U.S. and around the world went offline early Monday after a problem at a major cloud computing service left leading games, publishers and streaming platforms unusable to millions of users.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that Monday's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.
Amazon services, including Prime and Alexa, as well as other internet services including Snapchat, Roblox, Lyft, and more appear to be disrupted, according to Downdetector. The reported issues began shortly after 3 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector.
Millions around the world found themselves unable to access popular services thanks to a Domain Name System issue with Amazon Web Services.
An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.