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Ben Wilson

AWS outages takes most of the internet with it — Zoom, Slack, and even Fortnite go down

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo appears on a smartphone screen in this illustration photo in Reno, United States, on January 3, 2025. (Photo Illustration by Jaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

Slack is down. Zoom is down. Even Wordle is down, so don't think about killing time with puzzle games while your remote team figures out why their critical platforms are broken. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the server platform behind hundreds of the Internet's most popular apps, services, and games, and reports on the official AWS Service health page confirm "increased error rates" responsible for a huge chunk of the web going down.

Some user-friendly dashboards, like Downdetector, show the same news, though early signs show that recoveries could be happening as the pings begin dropping — though it's more likely that fewer reports are coming in compared to previous hours.

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