Amazon services 'recovering' after outage hits major sites and apps - but US users report fresh issues

More than 1,000 companies have had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

Snapchat, Canva and Roblox crash as major AWS outage exposes infrastructure fragility

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 20 October 2025 disrupted major services like Snapchat, Canva and Roblox, ...

Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage

Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying ...

Iraq bans US gaming platform Roblox over child safety concerns

Iraq has banned U.S. user-generated videogame platform Roblox due to concerns over child abuse, the government said, joining other countries in cracking down on virtual worlds.

Many websites, apps go dark as Amazon's cloud unit reports global outage

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the ...