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.

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat and caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world.AWS said it was seeing increased "error rates and latencies" for multiple services.

According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.

AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?

Scores of popular online platforms experienced problems Monday as Amazon Web Services (AWS) grappled with an outage. Amazon’s cloud computing arm, which is a leading provider of cloud

AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, Prime Video, Perplexity AI, Canva and more.

The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.

In making sense of all the hullabaloo, cybersecurity expert David Kennedy just dropped a curt and pertinent take on the AWS outage.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed it is tracking a massive issue that has rendered large parts of the internet unusable. AWS says it has identified and fixed the main issue causing the disruption, but it could be some time before all affected services are back to normal.

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.