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So much of the internet has just stopped working – here’s what’s behind the mass outage

The world has woken to do another hellish Monday in the most hellish way possible – loads of huge parts of the internet have just stopped working. Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Amazon services, PlayStation,

Did your apps stop working? You are not alone

Even Amazon's own services weren't immune. Users of the company's Ring doorbell cameras and Alexa-powered smart speakers posted on DownDetector that they weren't working, while others said they were unable to access the Amazon website or download books to their Kindle.
Daily Jang

Is Snapchat down? Major internet outage hits dozens of apps

Snapchat, Duolingo, Amazon, Fortnite and several banking apps have been hit with a massive internet outage.According to Independent, numerous of the world’s biggest apps and websites suddenly stopped working properly at around 8 am in the
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Major internet outage disrupts Snapchat, Duolingo, Canva, Fortnite and other popular apps, sites

The outage appears to be linked to an issue at Amazon Web Services, which provides infrastructure for much of the modern internet.

Amazon Web Services down RECAP: Alexa, Lloyds, Snapchat, Fortnite and more affected

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.
JOE

Major update issued after huge outage takes ‘half the internet’ down

Thousands of people have been affectedA major update has been issued after lot of the internet stopped working following

Battlefield 6 and Fortnite recovering as AWS outage takes out the likes of Roblox, Wordle, and Epic Games Store

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.

Several websites including Amazon’s cloud unit, and games like Roblox down for thousands of users

Multiple online platforms including Amazon’s cloud unit AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat and Perplexity were down on Oct 20, Downdetector said, while the chief executive officer of Perplexity said the root cause was an AWS issue.
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