BREAKING: AWS Suffers Widespread Service Failure
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage that impacted services on other platforms
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Last updated: Monday, October 20, 2025
Quick overview
- Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage affecting multiple platforms.
- Higher error rates and latencies were reported for several AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.
- User complaints peaked shortly after 7:30 a.m. London time, with thousands of reports logged.
- Platforms like Robinhood, Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, and Verizon are also experiencing issues due to the outage.
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage that impacted services on other platforms. Several AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region have higher error rates and latencies, which we can confirm.
The number of user complaints peaked shortly after 7:30 a.m. London time, with thousands of user reports displayed by Down Detector data. According to Perplexity, an artificial intelligence company, the AWS service outage was “affecting the stability of the website.”.
Robinhood stated in an X post that it is looking into the matter because the AWS outage is affecting its services. Several other platforms, such as Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, and Verizon, are also having problems, according to Downdetector.
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