An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

Is Roblox down? Is Fortnite down? Is one of so many other games down? Currently, yes. The internet is having a bad Monday.

AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?

People across the world have been experiencing a massive internet outage as many of the world’s biggest websites and applications have stopped functioning properly. According to

A huge number of websites and games are experiencing outages today (Monday 20th October), including platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite. The source of the issues appears to stem from Amazon’s cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), which hosts many of the world's platforms, including banking services.

The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on 20 October 2025 disrupted major services like Snapchat, Canva and Roblox, underscoring the fragility of modern digital infrastructure.