DOZENS of games and apps have gone down after a global outage.
Roblox gamers and Snapchat users are among those battling to access the platform following a server outage at Amazon.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows games and apps to rent servers without the need to buy physical computers or data centres.
More than 2,000 Roblox gamers have logged complaints on the Downdetector website, which measures outages, since 7.30am this morning.
The number of Snapchat users reporting outages has now hit more than 3,000 with more than 1,200 customers registering problems accessing Amazon.com.
AI startup Perplexity and cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase attributed the outages to AWS.
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“Perplexity is down right now. The root cause is an AWS issue. Were working on resolving it,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said in a post on X.
Hundreds of users have taken to X to vent their frustration at the outage.
One user wrote: “Markets pumping and public exchanges down… What is happening?”
A user in the US wrote: “Amazon is down. Truck drivers cannot check in or move any product and trailers across the country.”
Fortnite, The New York Times’ Wordle and dozens more websites and apps are also down.
More than 3,000 Snapchat users have reported outages on Downdetector.
A spokesperson for Amazon Web Services said it had “identified a potential root cause” of the problem and is “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery”.
Why several big-name sites are DOWN
By Jamie Harris, Assistant Technology and Science Reporter at The Sun
AWS – owned by Amazon – is the biggest cloud computing platform in the world, which many companies rely on for their web services.
They provide things like remote servers and databases.
That means if something big goes wrong it affects a lot of people – which appears to be the case during today’s outage.
Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, MyFitnessPal, the list goes on.
Amazon’s service status page says some 26 of its AWS services are currently impacted.
We don’t know what the root cause is yet.
While wide-reaching, this outage currently isn’t the worst we’ve seen.
Many will remember the Cloudflare IT meltdown in September last year, which crashed Microsoft services worldwide.
Major airports, airlines, railways and supermarkets were hit by that one.
This is a breaking news story. More to follow.
