Major Outage Hits Global Internet and Amazon Web Services

Many popular services stopped working this morning.

Around 9 a.m. Polish time, according to the Downdetector service, an Amazon Web Services outage began.

This immediately led to a global outage affecting many online services and games.

Systems such as Canva, Perplexity, Fortnite, Snapchat, Roblox are down.

Really looks like a global issue (down detector site) pic.twitter.com/DX6fdEnM9r

— Tryaz Gaming (@TryazGaming) October 20, 2025

Hey guys! So I just went on downdetector (to see if just a few things were down, or if there was some sort of outage) and uhhh… this doesn’t look great! pic.twitter.com/sO1OWh8Y5N

— dom (@ganseysupremacy) October 20, 2025

At the moment there is no information on how long the outage may last or when services will be restored.

The global AWS outage is affecting an increasing number of applications.

Users are reporting problems with Perplexity, Canva, Fortnite, Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, Ring, Alexa, McDonald’s, Binance, KuCoin, MEXC, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland