Fortnite, Roblox, Clash Royale and various other games and gaming services have been struck down by an "operational issue" with Amazon's web services today, though Amazon themselves promise that they're already seeing "significant signs of recovery".

Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, Canva, Ring, Amazon and Wordle are among the popular sites that have gone down in some regions on Monday afternoon, leaving millions affected. The issue is believed to be tied to Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform used by companies to run their websites.

Is Roblox down? Is Fortnite down? Is one of so many other games down? Currently, yes. The internet is having a bad Monday.

An AWS outage affected multiple online services, including Snapchat, Roblox, and Ring, due to a bug in the DynamoDB service, showcasing the cloud platform's extensive impact on the digital realm.

Popular game-building platform Roblox is still suffering from a server problem that knocked it offline over 48 hours ago and kept it down for most of the Halloween weekend - and while the company insists that it has identified the cause, it still doesn't ...

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