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Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon Web Services outage - live updates

Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

www.bbc.co.uk

It's going to be a bad day at the office for a lot of people.

 

[DKehoe]

It's going to be a bad day at the office for a lot of people.

Maybe a good day for some

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

It started about two hours ago.

 

[Peggies]

It's going to be a bad day at the office for a lot of people.

 

[eddie4]

Good, go get some sleep or touch grass. Chill out for a bit.

 

[kikkis]

Self hosted neogaf.com for the win

 

[TheUnicornGuy]

My nephew and niece have got faces like smacked asses, it's the first day of the school holidays and it's pissing down with rain and both roblox and fortnite are down.

 

[Power Pro]

Way too much shit is under one roof with this service.

 

[Sub_Level]

I go into work in 5 hours, I am sure it will be back up by then. Lame.

 

[Revolutionary]

Americans while the internet shits itself:

I'd still be sleeping if it weren't for my damn cats turning my bed into a racetrack.

 

[bitbydeath]

Funny how Amazon Prime still works.

 

[Wildebeest]

Funny how Amazon Prime still works.

They stopped using AWS hosting ages ago for prime video because it was too expensive for them.

 

[Hypereides]

This is going to get more and more common in the future. Whether or not this was a malicious disruption, big companies have actively been turning the internet into a playground/smorgasbord for cyber criminals.

 

[nush]

This is going to get more and more common in the future. Whether or not this was a malicious disruption, big companies have actively been turning the internet into a playground/smorgasbord for cyber criminals.

It was only last year that one of the big payment processors went down. It was only becuse I still carry cash that I was able to buy what I wanted.

 

[Portugeezer]

So that's why Reddit is so slow.

Praise the lord!!!

 

[demigod]

Roblox wasn't down here.

 

[Fermbiz]

I have two Zoom meetings today, I hope thats down....

 

[deriks]

When I saw the title I was "the channel Your Movie Suck died?"

I guess I'm bad with acronyms... Or reading

 

[Pallas]

Fortnite is down, went to test it myself.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

My broadband seems to be down, is this related?

 

[Nocty]

I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical.

 

[Little Mac]

My Blink security cameras and services went down most of the morning. They are back up now.

 

[daffyduck]

Roblox wasn't down here.

 

[AJUMP23]

When did this happen, because I was not affected.

 

[Trilobit]

Alexa users have had a hell of a morning with their alarms

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) internet outage may have affected people using Alexa's alarm routine.

mashable.com

 

[The Cockatrice]

It's going to be a bad day at the office for a lot of people.

Not if you have a gaf account.

 

[Windle Poons]

Behold our digital always online future...

 

[VaultBoy101]

Alexa users have had a hell of a morning with their alarms

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) internet outage may have affected people using Alexa's alarm routine.

mashable.com

A lot of people with Ring home security systems have reported not being able to disarm their alarms this morning so they can leave their homes.

 

[AJUMP23]

I can't get Amazon to return searches now.

 

[daffyduck]

.com is borked, but .ca works

 

[OLED_Gamer]

I've been warning people about the threat of cyber attacks increasing exponentially over the coming years as we are seeing daily attacks at work (British nuclear defence).

The attacks come from Asia mostly, but since the AI and LLM boom the cybersec team have been expanded 3x and are stacked out daily. One of the lead engineers said to us it is getting harder and harder to stop and that Cloudflare is critical.

Its why those that want digital only transactions need to realize that there are substantial risks with moving that way. Needs to be both cash and cashless options for payments.

 

[ReBurn]

This is kinda cool because since there's absolutely nothing I can do about it, I don't have to do anything. I'm going to knock off early and go take a nap.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yahoo Finance was down in the morning. And even my online NFL pool was down. lol. Both up fine now.

 

[Nocty]

Its why those that want digital only transactions need to realize that there are substantial risks with moving that way. Needs to be both cash and cashless options for payments.

cash payments are at risk due to financial market instability though, especially exchange rates and what not.

The world is a very insecure place at the moment.

 

[DKehoe]

 

[Warnen]

All my shit at work didn't work, couldn't make signs, place orders, do scans, fix schedules, add new employees.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Crazy.

I dont follow soccer, but I dont think anyone would think of AWS running sports stuff like this. I guess they do!

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Signal was down.

 

[DKehoe]

Crazy.

I dont follow soccer, but I dont think anyone would think of AWS running sports stuff like this. I guess they do!

Yeh, it just goes to show how deeply embedded it is in people's day-to-day lives.

Edit: StreetsofBeige you're Canadian right? I just saw this

 

[Zathalus]

Crazy.

I dont follow soccer, but I dont think anyone would think of AWS running sports stuff like this. I guess they do!

Yep, I used to work at AWS in the AWS Elemental team. Worked with the Premier League to troubleshoot quite a few services they used. This was back in 2020/2021.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeh, it just goes to show how deeply embedded it is in people's day-to-day lives.

Edit: StreetsofBeige you're Canadian right? I just saw this

Yup.

Game is at 8 pm. So they got 6 hours from that tweet to resolve issues till game time. Better hurry up as the dome fits around 40,000 people. lol

I'll be at a pub eating wings!

 

[ReyBrujo]

laughs in legacy-desktop-application-that-doesn't-rely-on-AWS

 

[Futaleufu]

From now on is going to be hard to sell companies on AWS as infallible as their ads and courses try to sell it.

 

[Unknown?]

It was only last year that one of the big payment processors went down. It was only becuse I still carry cash that I was able to buy what I wanted.

Someday, you will go to your bank and they won't give you cash because, "their system is down." -_-

 

[SJRB]

Based Evilore not hosting neoGAF on AWS.

 

[rm082e]

 

[MaestroMike]

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Have they said what the cause is? Hopefully its not the zero ring antivirus software they use f'n up things again....

edit:
"
As of October 20, 2025, the cause of the widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has been identified as a Domain Name System (DNS) issue impacting one of its largest databases, DynamoDB.
What caused the outage

• The outage stemmed from an "operational incident" within AWS's US-EAST-1 region in Northern Virginia, a major hub for its cloud services.
• The problem specifically involved the Domain Name System (DNS), which translates human-readable web addresses into computer-friendly addresses.
• The DNS issue led to latency and error rates in the DynamoDB database, which impacted a massive number of websites and applications that rely on AWS.
• On October 20, Amazon acknowledged that a recent system update designed to monitor network load had multiple flaws, which contributed to the problem.

How it was resolved

• Amazon has been working on fixing the issue by throttling the creation of new instances of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and taking steps to help the faulty monitoring system recover.
• As of the afternoon of October 20, connectivity and API recovery were being seen for most services, though some residual problems remained. "

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I noticed this when I woke up this morning around 4 because Robinhood was having trouble and I saw some gap on futures market - maybe related.

 

[winjer]