Amazon outage hits Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite
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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.
Fortnite faced a major outage across the US, with over 15,000 reports of login issues on the DownDetector. Fortnite Status provides update on the disruption.
A major AWS outage is impacting global platforms including Fortnite, Roblox, PlayStation Network, and major banks, as DownDetector reports widespread failures.
Multiple online platforms including Amazon's cloud unit AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat and Perplexity were down on Monday, Downdetector said, while the CEO of Perplexity said the root cause was an AWS issue.