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

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.

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 20 October 2025 disrupted major services like Snapchat, Canva and Roblox, underscoring the fragility of modern digital infrastructure.

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.

A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet. In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.” A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

Fortnite, owned by Epic Games, Roblox RBLX.N, Clash Royale and Clash of Clans were among the gaming platforms that were down, while Paypal’s PYPL.O Venmo and Chime CHYM.O were some of the financial platforms that faced issues, the outage tracking website said. Uber rival Lyft’s app was also down for thousands of users in the U.S.