Huge AWS outage brings down Wordle, Roblox, Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and more gaming services here's what we know

Date:
Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:32:00 +0000

Description:
AWS is down and affecting gamers

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An enormous Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is having a huge impact across the internet, and gaming has not escaped the damage.

Games of all types, from Fortnite to Wordle to Roblox have been affected by the AWS outage and appear down for huge amounts of people today. Problems started at about 7.30am BST (that's 2.30am ET) when gamign services started having huge spikes on the outage-detecting website Downdetector.

The root of the problems lie Amazon Web Services, but no specific cause is known yet: the Amazon Web Services dashboard just shows an "operational
issue" in North Virginia. The AWS dashboard says "engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue".

Anyway, the effect of the outage has been massive and is ongoiung in the gaming world with storefronts, online games, and more being interrupted. Im here to bring you the latest as we try and understand what happenbed and hope that services come back online soon. Latest news A massive AWS outage has afffected swathes of the internet, including games and gaming services Fortnite , Wordle, Roblox , and storefronts like the Epic Games Store are
down Problems began at around 2.30am ET / 7.30am BST Gaming services hit by massive AWS outage

A huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) problem started earlier this morning at
about 7.30am BST (2.30am ET) and has seen a whole host of gaming services and games hit by interruptions and straight-up failures.

This will be huge today with millions of gamers trying to play online or affect storefronts on the daily. Right now, we can see that the likes of Fortnite , Roblox , Wordle , and the Epic Game Store - and many, many more - have been affected.

Let's do the rounds and see what the state of play is and if there's any fix on the horizon. Fortnite massively affected (Image credit: Future/Epic Games Store)

One of the very biggest games in the world has been affected by the AWS outage: Fortnite is currently down for many.

My colleague Rhys just sent me the above screenshot showing that he just flat-out cannot sign in to the game.

The error reads: "Unable to sign in to your account for online services. Please try again later." (Image credit: Future/Epic Games Store)

Fortnite being down is partnered by Epic's own storefront failing to load or let me log in online.

The above error screen is what I get and have had all morning... PS Network seems fine... (Image credit: Sony/PlayStation)

In slightly better news, the PlayStation Network seems to be fine - at least for me and many others, despite there being some reports of outages.

From my testing however, the store, games, and PS direct, and all my account gumpf is fine - thankfully. An update from AWS

We have an update from AWS!

Reporting at 2.27aam PT (that's 10.27am BST), AWS said:

"We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information."

Fingers crossed that means we're now coming oput the end of this...



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/live/amazon-web-services-down-outage-gaming-for tnite-rooblox-wordle-october-2025


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