Fortnite, Roblox, Switch Online and more down in massive internet outage

An AWS (Amazon Web Services) issue caused major problems across the internet Monday morning, including among the world's most popular games

Roblox and Fortnite down as huge web outage hits major platforms

A huge number of websites and games are experiencing outages today (Monday 20th October), including platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite. The source of the issues appears to stem from Amazon’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which hosts many of the world's platforms, including banking services.
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