{"id":318213,"date":"2025-10-20T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318213\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:28:10","slug":"major-aws-outage-takes-down-fortnite-alexa-snapchat-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/318213\/","title":{"rendered":"Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, <a href=\"https:\/\/status.openai.com\/incidents\/01K80CBJD5Z64DF82KGT3K3QE0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EOSStatus\/status\/1980194104115150858\" rel=\"nofollow\">Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services<\/a>, and more. The <a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AWS status checker<\/a> is reporting that multiple services are \u201cimpacted\u201d by operational issues, and that the company is \u201cinvestigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region\u201d \u2014 though outages are also impacting services in other regions globally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/alexa\/comments\/1obdalz\/anybody_else_having_their_alexa_say_sorry_the\/?share_id=fJoQ-Ru02X3moE99D2HkA&amp;utm_content=1&amp;utm_medium=android_app&amp;utm_name=androidcss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Users on Reddit<\/a> are reporting that the Alexa smart assistant is down and unable to respond to queries or complete requests, and in my own experience, I found that routines like pre-set alarms are not functioning. The AWS issue also appears to be impacting platforms running on its cloud network, including Perplexity, Airtable, Canva, and the McDonalds app. The cause of the outage hasn\u2019t been confirmed, and it\u2019s unclear when regular service will be restored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">\u201cPerplexity is down right now,\u201d Perplexity CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aravsrinivas\/status\/1980172632600506579?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aravind Srinivas said on X<\/a>. \u201cThe root cause is an AWS issue. We\u2019re working on resolving it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The AWS dashboard first reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region at 3:11AM ET. \u201cWe are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause. We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share,\u201d Amazon said in an update published at 3:51AM ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">AWS outages in the US-East-1 region have created widespread disruptions in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/6\/13\/23759857\/amazon-aws-down-outage-taco-bell-mcdonalds-burger-king\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2023<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/12\/11\/22829544\/amazon-web-services-overwhelmed-network-outage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2021<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/11\/25\/21719396\/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020<\/a>, forcing multiple websites and platforms offline for several hours before regular service was restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":318214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2431,64,50,242,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-318213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tech","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115405790165408372","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}