Global Outages Hit Major Platforms: Roblox, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Amazon Affected

A significant number of widely-used online platforms, including Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon, and Ring, have faced extensive server disruptions due to issues with Amazon’s cloud network.

According to Downdetector, a service that monitors online outages, reports of these disruptions started surfacing from the United Kingdom at approximately 3 a.m. EST.

Downdetector logged over 2,000 outage reports from Roblox users, more than 3,000 from Snapchat, and around 2,000 concerning access issues with Ring and Amazon.com.

Platforms like Fortnite, Duolingo, and Canva were also affected by these widespread service interruptions.

The root of these disruptions seems to be connected to Amazon Web Services (AWS), a vast cloud infrastructure that supports a multitude of websites and applications across the globe.

Amazon said on its service status page that “multiple AWS services” were experiencing “increased error rates” and delays.

“We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause,” Amazon wrote.

“Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause. We will continue to provide updates as we have more information to share, or by 2:00 AM.”

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