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A data center hub in Northern Virginia is causing havoc across the world after it experienced a significant outage this morning.
The Amazon Web Services outage knocked out web services around the world. The epicenter of the outage is Northern Virginia.
AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?
The outage underscored a central trade-off of cloud computing: while it lets businesses deploy global services without maintaining vast infrastructure, it concentrates risk. A problem in a single region—like Northern Virginia—can cause widespread, simultaneous outages for unrelated companies worldwide.
Roblox, Fortnite, and Palworld, along with several other online games and apps, have gone offline on Monday afternoon (20 October) as a major outage affects multiple parts of the internet.
The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.