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.

An issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the ubiquitous internet hosting service, took down many of the world's most popular online games in the early hours of Monday morning. Fortnite, Roblox, and Nintendo all reported that their services were unavailable.

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What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail. U.K. banks and government tech systems going down. University students in Australia struggling to complete their coursework.

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.

AWS saw a major outage in the early hours of Monday morning, a temporary recovery, and then further issues as the East Coast neared midday. You can read the full explanation of th

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.