Roblox, Amazon Web Services and Fortnite
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On October 20, an AWS outage caused widespread disruption to websites and apps, highlighting the reliance on cloud services and the potential for scams and loss of revenue due to outages.
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.
The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.
Roblox is expanding its platforms as it arrives on the Samsung Galaxy Store and Xbox Ally devices today. Learn more here.