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The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.
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.
AWS announced that it has fully mitigated the issues that caused a widespread outage affecting several major websites. The outage, which was caused by a Domain Name System issue, impacted AWS’s US-EAST-1 Region and affected services such as Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, McDonald’s, and Coinbase, according to the Associated Press.