DOZENS of games and apps have gone down after a global outage. Roblox gamers and Snapchat users are among those battling to access the platform following a server outage at Amazon. The company’s web service allows games and apps to rent servers without the need to buy physical computers or data centres.

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

A nationwide outage causing major headaches this morning, from airlines, to banking, to your favorite apps. Snapchat, Ring, and Roblox were all shut down for hours.

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.

An Amazon Web Services outage knocked out popular apps and websites for hours, snarling everything from shopping and streaming to messaging and payments.AWS customers around the world reported errors as a failure in Amazon’s cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a large-scale global outage that disrupted a wide range of platforms and digital tools, including Alexa, Fortnite, and ChatGPT.

Canvas for VCU went offline around 9 a.m. on Monday after a network of data centers in Northern Virginia run by Amazon Web Services experienced widespread outages — knocking out thousands of apps and websites.

The internet is apparently falling apart at the seams today with major outages reported across games like Fortnite, Roblox, and more following issues with Amazon Web Services (AWS).