How Amazon’s most important cloud region became critical to daily online life, and why even a brief disruption can have global effects.

An Amazon Web Services outage has resulted in a lot of unhappy gamers, with server issues hitting Fortnite and many other top games.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud infrastructure giant relied on by millions of companies worldwide, experienced a significant outage on Monday, Oct.

An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world.

Scores of popular online platforms experienced problems Monday as Amazon Web Services (AWS) grappled with an outage. Amazon’s cloud computing arm, which is a leading provider of cloud infrastructure services,

Battlefield 6 has acknowledged reports of widespread server and connectivity issues with the game, and says it could be connected to the Amazon's AWS outages.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is facing a widespread outage disrupting a number of the world's most popular websites, platforms and games. Down Detector reported outages affecting major games including Clash Royale, Roblox, Pokémon Go, and Fortnite.

Snapchat, Roblox, Canva, Fortnite, Duolingo, some banks, including Halifax, Lloyds and Bank of Scotland, and many other websites have been affected after AWS went down.

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