Massive Amazon Outage Makes Worlds Biggest Games Unplayable

Amazon AWS, Fortnite, Palworld, Roblox

Update #2

As of 7pm EST things are beginning to come back online. AWS is still experiencing some issues but they aren’t as widespread. Per the latest status update:

“We have restored EC2 instance launch throttles to pre-event levels and EC2 launch failures have recovered across all Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Regions. AWS services which rely on EC2 instance launches such as Redshift are working through their backlog of EC2 instance launches successfully and we anticipate full recovery of the backlog over the next two hours. We can confirm that Connect is handling new voice and chat sessions normally. There is a backlog of analytics and reporting data that we must process and anticipate that we will have worked through the backlog over the next two hours. We will provide an update by 3:30 PM PDT.”

Update #1

As of 2pm EST things are still offline for AWS. Amazon states that “Our mitigations to resolve launch failures for new EC2 instances are progressing and the internal subsystems of EC2 are now showing early signs of recovering in a few Availability Zones (AZs) in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are applying mitigations to the remaining AZs at which point we expect launch errors and network connectivity issues to subside.”

This seeks to hopefully suggest things are close to going back online.

Original Story:

If you have been trying to get online to play a variety of the worlds most popular games and been unable to do so, you aren’t alone.

Amazon’s AWS hosting services have been offline this morning bringing a halt to popular games such as Fortnite, Sea Of Thieves, Roblox and more. According to Amazon’s status updates the issue is an “operational issue” that is impacting its services.

Fortnite, and many other titles, are currently offline

Amazon has found the issue to be in their North Virginia servers. The last update was at 8:10am EST stating “We confirm that we have now recovered processing of SQS queues via Lambda Event Source Mappings. We are now working through processing the backlog of SQS messages in Lambda queues.”

Multiple social media accounts for the biggest games have posted that they are being affected, leading to many frustrations from gamers. As of right now it appears that at least the following games are offline due to this issue.