Fortnite and Roblox currently down due to major Amazon Web Services outage
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Key points
- Amazon Web Services is currently experiencing an outage, affecting video game servers.
- Two of the games affected by the outages are Fortnite and Roblox, with Fortnite releasing a statement.
- Sites such as Perplexity and Snapchat are also down.
On Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) stopped working properly, affecting games such as Fortnite and Roblox. The former has made a statement saying that there are problems with logging in to the game and that the team is currently investigating.
Other sites such as Robinhood, Ring and Venmo are also having problems connected with the current issue with AWS. According to the AWS Health Dashboard, under Service Health, the US-EAST-1Region is currently having troubles.
AWS confirmed that there is a significant error rate for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the same region. It also said that “customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases” as long as the issue persists. The company added that its engineers are already working on “both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause.”
Aside from the main service that was affected, Amazon DynamoDB, here’s a list of all the other services that are impacted:
- AWS Batch
- AWS Config
- AWS Database Migration Service
- AWS Deadline Cloud
- AWS Elemental
- AWS Global Accelerator
- AWS IAM Identity Center
- AWS Identity and Access Management
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Network Firewall
- AWS Private Certificate Authority
- AWS Secrets Manager
- AWS Security Token Service
- AWS Support API
- AWS Support Center
- AWS Systems Manager
- AWS VPCE PrivateLink
- Amazon API Gateway
- Amazon CloudFront
- Amazon CloudWatch
- Amazon Connect
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
- Amazon FSx
- Amazon GameLift Servers
- Amazon Interactive Video Service
- Amazon Kendra
- Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Amazon MQ
- Amazon Polly
- Amazon Q Business
- Amazon SageMaker
- Amazon Simple Queue Service
- Amazon VPC Lattice
As of the writing of this article, the company is still working on the issues.
Earlier this month, Steam and Riot Games experienced distributed denial-of-service attacks, which led to League of Legends ranked games being disabled. Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 also experienced the same problem.
