From Amazon to Roblox, how AWS outage wrecked internet
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An issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the ubiquitous internet hosting service, took down many of the world's most popular online games in the early hours of Monday morning. Fortnite, Roblox, and Nintendo all reported that their services were unavailable.
Roblox, Fortnite, and Palworld, along with several other online games and apps, have gone offline on Monday afternoon (20 October) as a major outage affects multiple parts of the internet.
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.
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