AWS outage list: Roblox, Fortnite, Snapchat, Signal, and more

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not having a great start to the week.

A massive internet outage hit AWS-powered platforms in the early hours of Monday morning, affecting a large number of popular sites, games and services including the likes of Fortnite, Snapchat. and HBO Max. Of course, people are reacting online.

AWS posted on a company dashboard on Monday, “We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region,” which the company said was “related to DNS resolution.” AWS added it has been working to resolve the issue, and now reports “significant signs of recovery” across the affected sites listed below.

“Most requests should now be succeeding,” reads the latest update at the time of writing. “We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information.”

Sites impacted by AWS outage

According to Downdetector, here’s a list of the websites affected by the AWS outage (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, which also owns Mashable):

• Snapchat

• Amazon

• Roblox

• Robinhood

• Amazon Alexa

• Ring

• HBO Max

• Chime

• Venmo

• Lyft

• Prime Video

• Fortnite

• Disney+

• Hulu

• Roku

• Signal

• IMDb

• United Airlines 

• Amazon Music

• Reddit

• Character.AI

• AT&T

• My Fitness Pal

• Steam

This is a developing story. More details will be provided as they become available.