Global AWS Outage Disrupts Major Websites and Apps Including Fortnite, Snapchat, and Lyft

Oct 20, 2025 05:12 pm CST

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS experienced a major outage affecting the US-EAST-1 Region, causing widespread disruption to popular platforms including Fortnite, Snapchat, Perplexity, Coinbase, and Lyft. The service interruption impacted numerous websites, apps, and services worldwide that rely on AWS cloud infrastructure, demonstrating the far-reaching consequences of cloud service failures on the digital ecosystem.