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Jacob Fox

AWS outage affecting Fortnite, Roblox, Reddit, and many others is close to fixed, with Amazon saying services are showing 'significant signs of recovery'

Amazon logo is screened on a mobile phone for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on October 17th, 2024.

Even if you're not much of a digital dweller, you might have noticed some of your favourite websites, apps, and even games have been, well, just not working today. This is because there's been an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage across all regions, including the US, EU, and even over here in the currently very dreary UK. It looks like this might be clearing up already, though, after a couple of hours of downtime.

The list of affected apps, sites, and services is long and includes some big names. Amazon faced issues, as did Canva, Apple TV, Slack, Asana, Tidal, and more.

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