AWS offers a lot of useful features to clients, such as the ability for websites and apps to automatically scale compute and server capacity up and down as needed to handle ebbs a

AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage impacting global digital platforms, that includes social media applications, gaming services, financial platforms, and smart home gadgets.

AM Pacific Time (or 3:42 PM Indian Standard Time) on October 20, the internet’s invisible access lanes stopped working at the world’s largest online webhost situated in the USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS),

An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

Games of all types, from Fortnite to Wordle to Roblox have been affected by the AWS outage. Problems started at about 7.30am BST (that's 2.30am ET) when gamign services started having huge spikes on the outage-detecting website Downdetector.

Snapchat users reported login failures, Fortnite players encountered server errors mid-game, and Canva's design tools froze for creators worldwide.