From Amazon to Roblox, how AWS outage wrecked internet
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A widespread internet outage was reported Monday involving Amazon services that impacted several popular services like Snapchat, Fortnite and Roblox.
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.
The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.
Hundreds of popular online games, apps, and websites — including Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon, and Ring — have experienced widespread server outages linked to Amazon’s cloud network. Reports of outages began flooding in from the United Kingdom around 3 a.
An Amazon Web Services outage appears to have knocked out a number of key websites, social media networks, work platforms, and video games.
The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.
Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world.
Roblox, along with other games, are encountering server issues due to a global server outage happening this Oct. 20.
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