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Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage
Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.
Among the websites impacted by AWS outage are Snapchat, Canva, Crunchyroll, Roblox, Whatnot, Rainbow Six Siege, Coinbase and Duolingo.
The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.
Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite & more are down for users worldwide, with reports from outage tracking sites, showing a surge in error reports.
Amazon Web Services reported issues with hundreds of online services, gaming platforms and various apps on Monday, Oct. 20.
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".
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.
A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.