Big AWS outage brings down Roblox, Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and extra gaming providers – this is what we all know as Wordle recovers

Same goes for Lost Ark…

Unsurprisingly, the identical goes for Amazon’s different large recreation, Lost Ark, with the official X / Twitter account providing an nearly an identical assertion acknowledging the issues.

If you play Amazon video games, you could be hit laborious…

Perhaps considerably predictably, in case you’re somebody who performs Amazon video games it seems such as you’re being hit laborious proper now.

The above picture is from the Throne and Liberty X / Twitter account, and stays the newest replace on the sport which seems to acknowledge widespread issues for gamers attempting to login and play…

Phew! Wordle is again…

Wordle was badly hit by the AWS outage earlier, however seems to be again on-line now.

Though the web page itself – hosted on the New York Times’ gaming web site – loaded, it would not let customers log in, that means they would not have the ability to prolong their all-important streaks.

Thanks for the above update to our Global Editor-in-Chief, and Wordle warlock, Marc McLaren!

Cannot go fast right now in Sonic…

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has been affected by the AWS outage too with my colleague Rhys sharing this screenshot showing that the connection to the server is just failing.

An update from AWS

We have an update from AWS!

Reporting at 2.27aam PT (that’s 10.27am BST), AWS said:

“We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information.”

Fingers crossed that means we’re now coming oput the end of this…

PS Network seems fine…

In slightly better news, the PlayStation Network seems to be fine – at least for me and many others, despite there being some reports of outages.

From my testing however, the store, games, and PS direct, and all my account gumpf is fine – thankfully.

Fortnite massively affected

One of the very biggest games in the world has been affected by the AWS outage: Fortnite is currently down for many.

My colleague Rhys just sent me the above screenshot showing that he just flat-out cannot sign in to the game.

The error reads: “Unable to sign in to your account for online services. Please try again later.”

Gaming services hit by massive AWS outage

A huge Amazon Web Services (AWS) problem started earlier this morning at about 7.30am BST (2.30am ET) and has seen a whole host of gaming services and games hit by interruptions and straight-up failures.

This will be huge today with millions of gamers trying to play online or affect storefronts on the daily. Right now, we can see that the likes of Fortnite, Roblox, Wordle, and the Epic Game Store – and many, many more – have been affected.

Let’s do the rounds and see what the state of play is and if there’s any fix on the horizon.