On October 20, 2025, the digital world experienced a significant disruption when a major outage in Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) affected numerous online services. Millions of users found themselves unable to access platforms like Fortnite,

Users have complained about slow loading, failed connections and errors while accessing AWS services, Technology & Science, Times Now

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A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.

The Amazon Web Services outage that, at one point, saw Amazon Music, Prime Video, Alexa, Signal, WhatsApp, Snapchat, IMDb, Disney+, Fortnite, Roblox and Wordle down or suffering slowdowns, has been resolved.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday took down major social media and banking sites across the Internet, though the company says services largely had been restored as of 8:50 a.m. The affected websites included Amazon, Reddit, Snapchat, Venmo, Whatsapp, Signal, Slack, Fortnite and Ring doorbells, according to the New York Times.

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