Huge Outage Knocks Out Amazon, Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, Slack and a Lot More

An Amazon Web Services outage appears to person knocked retired a fig of cardinal websites, societal media networks, enactment platforms, and video games.

Amazon told users determination are “significant mistake rates” for requests made to its information retention work DynamoDB successful the "US-EAST-1 Region.” This portion relates to services hosted successful bluish Virginia.

But the occupation is besides affecting its different services successful that portion arsenic well. According to Downdetector, video games including Roblox and Fortnite are affected, Snapchat appears to beryllium struggling, Slack is dilatory for galore users, and adjacent online banking is having issues. Wordle fans are besides reporting struggling to log-in.

Downdetector reports a fig of websites affected by the AWS outage. Image credit: Downdetector.

A connection from Epic confirmed the issues connected Fortnite: “An outage affecting respective services connected the net is besides impacting Fortnite log-ins,” Epic said. “We're investigating this now, and volition update you erstwhile we person much details.”

Amazon Web Services' latest update reveals a imaginable basal origin for the mistake rates has been identified. "Based connected our investigation, the contented appears to beryllium related to DNS solution of the DynamoDB API endpoint successful US-EAST-1," aws SAID. "We are moving connected aggregate parallel paths to accelerate recovery. This contented besides affects different AWS Services successful the US-EAST-1 Region. Global services oregon features that trust connected US-EAST-1 endpoints specified arsenic IAM updates and DynamoDB Global tables whitethorn besides beryllium experiencing issues. During this time, customers whitethorn beryllium incapable to make oregon update Support Cases. We urge customers proceed to retry immoderate failed requests. We volition proceed to supply updates arsenic we person much accusation to share, oregon by 2:45 AM."

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