Amazon Web Services (AWS) is still grappling with a widespread outage that has caused major disruptions across multiple websites and apps. The company confirmed ongoing network connectivity problems in its US-EAST-1 Region, which houses key data centers in Northern Virginia.
In the past half hour, AWS released two new service updates acknowledging that the issue remains unresolved. According to the company:
Oct 20, 7:14 AM PDT: “We can confirm significant API errors and connectivity issues across multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are investigating and will provide another update within 30 minutes or sooner.”
Oct 20, 7:29 AM PDT: “Multiple AWS services experienced network connectivity issues in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are seeing early signs of recovery and continue to investigate the root cause.”
Amazon Web Services Outage
The outage, which generated more than 6.5 million disruption reports, has affected a wide range of online platforms and services dependent on AWS infrastructure.
Among the most prominent casualties were gaming platforms Roblox and Fortnite, both of which rely heavily on (AWS) Amazon Web Services. Earlier today, Roblox cited a “widespread outage due to AWS issues,” though it now reports that “all systems [are] operational.”
Epic Games also confirmed that Fortnite, Lego Fortnite, Rocket League, and its game store are all functioning normally again good news for gamers as the situation begins to stabilize.
While some services show signs of recovery, Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineers are still working to identify the root cause and ensure full restoration across all affected systems.
