AWS is down, leaving millions of users of Fortnite, Xbox, and other platforms without access
Update: According to information received directly from the AWS Global Communications team, the report prior to the AWS outage resulted in “some inaccurate speculation on social media” that coincided with outages in several gaming services. AWS Global recommends checking the AWS Health Dashboard as “the only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services.” We apologize for any issues this may have caused.
AWS services are operating normally today, but an event elsewhere on the internet has prompted some inaccurate speculation on social media. The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the #AWS Health Dashboard. As always,…
— AWS Newsroom (@AWSNewsroom) November 26, 2025
If you’re experiencing problems with various internet services this afternoon, you’re not alone. Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers began experiencing outages this afternoon, November 26. Here’s everything you need to know.
Millions of users around the world have been affected by the outage of Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud infrastructure on which platforms, video games, and services depend. With Black Friday just a couple of days away, one of the most important days not only for shopping but also for transactions not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world, an outage like this could become even more chaotic.
The first reports were published on the Downdetector website, where both AWS and other services such as Epic Games, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Electronic Arts, Amazon, among others, experienced their first failures at 1:00 pm ET.
There is no solution on the user side: all that remains is to wait
The Amazon Web Services outage directly affects the cloud infrastructure used by thousands of companies and applications. This means that the errors are not related to the device, connection, or user access credentials, but rather to Amazon’s central servers, so users cannot do anything to resolve the problem. Common and typical actions in similar situations, such as restarting the router, computer, or mobile phone, will have no effect while the incident persists.
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Given that AWS is the system that supports many of the world’s most popular digital services—from social media to online video games—when it experiences an outage like the one on Monday, applications that depend on its infrastructure simply stop working or display connection errors. This happens even if the companies responsible for those services are not directly at fault, so in a way they are “tied” to this cloud infrastructure and the fact that it continues to operate normally.
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