An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

If you’re trying to play Roblox and keep running into connection timeouts, login errors, or server-not-available messages, it’s not your WiFi that’s causing issue, you might be affected by a wider, ongoing outage. In this guide we’ll help you understand why Roblox isn’t launching or working and what you can do about it.

While it doesn’t happen too often, there are times when the central Roblox servers malfunction, have some sort of internal issue, or are simply offline for maintenance. If you’re trying to play a game and you can’t connect to its online services ...

AWS said in a status update on Monday just before 4 p.m. EDT that all of its services had "returned to normal operations" after much-used sites like Shapchat, Canva, Venmo, Coinbase, Ring doorbell cameras, Roblox and Fortnite were affected throughout the day Monday.

No one likes errors popping up in their favorite games, especially when it keeps you from playing all the creative worlds it offers. Fortunately, we keep an eye on errors to help players get through them if possible. With that in mind, there might be a few ...