More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?

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.

Multiple websites went down Monday morning due to an Amazon Web Services outage, AWS confirmed. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” the cloud computing service said.

PSN is partially down for many users around the globe right now, but it’s not an issue on Sony’s end for once. Early in the morning, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a massive outage, taking many websites and services down with it,

Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.

While the outage originated in the US, it affected Indian users due to AWS's global backbone. Over 1,000 reports emerged from India on Downdetector, focusing on gaming (Roblox, Fortnite), education (Duolingo), design (Canva), and social apps (Snapchat). Telecom services like Vodafone saw indirect hits via AWS-dependent portals.

Roblox, along with other games, are encountering server issues due to a global server outage happening this Oct. 20.