AWS down? Global outage leaves millions stranded as Fortnite, Roblox, AWS Raiders, and Alexa go offline ahead of Black Friday
Initial reports of the outage appeared on the website Downdetector and noted failures affecting AWS and related services, including Epic Games, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Electronic Arts and Amazon itself. The outages started around 13:00.
According to Meristation’s website, the issue has been confirmed to be caused by Amazon’s central servers; This means the outage was not related to individual devices, internet connections or login credentials. Users who try typical troubleshooting methods such as restarting routers, computers, or mobile phones will find that these measures are ineffective as long as the incident persists.
AWS powers the cloud infrastructure of thousands of companies and applications, from social media to online gaming. When the system goes down, services that depend on its servers become inoperable, regardless of the companies operating them, and users face connection errors or service outages.
The timing of the outage raises the potential for the outage to occur just days before Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping periods of the year in the United States and internationally. Analysts warn that the outage could create chaos for online transactions, gaming and digital communications during the critical holiday shopping season.
As of now, there is no solution from the user side and the responsibility to restore the infrastructure is on Amazon.
