STORY: Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday (October 20) that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat and caused connectivity issues for many companies around the world.

Fortnite, owned by Epic Games, Roblox RBLX.N, Clash Royale and Clash of Clans were among the gaming platforms that were down, while Paypal's PYPL.O Venmo and Chime CHYM.O were some of the financial platforms that faced issues, the outage tracking website said.

Uber rival Lyft's app was also down for thousands of users in the U.S.

AWS said it had identified a root cause and was working to accelerate recovery.

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Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage

VIDEO SHOWS: DOWNDETECTOR.COM SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON MULTIPLE WEBSITES PART OF AMAZON WEB SERVICES

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1. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING LOGOS OF WEBSITES AND VOLUME OF REPORTED OUTAGES AS PART OF AMAZON WEB SERVICES DISRUPTION

INTERNET (OCTOBER 20, 2025) (SNAPCHAT APP - Access All) (MUTE)

2. SNAPCHAT APP SHOWING ERROR MESSAGE

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3. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON SNAPCHAT APP

4. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON AMAZON WEB SERVICES

5. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON PRIME VIDEO

6. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON FORTNITE

7. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON ROBINHOOD

8. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON AMAZON

9. SCREEN RECORDING SHOWING REPORTED OUTAGES ON ROBLOX