The effects of the Amazon web services outages were being felt locally in the Capital Region. Problems with Amazon’s cloud computing service affected things like Ring doorbell cameras and Amazon orders, Snapchat and games like Roblox and Fortnite, as well as Disney+, Lyft, the McDonald’s app, and Venmo, to name just a few.

Roblox looks like it's back, stating that " all systems operational ," although various Fortnite services are still listed as suffering from a "major outage". Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.

Some of the world's biggest apps suddenly stopped working on Monday morning as Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down and took a large portion of the internet with it. Apps including Snapchat, Reddit Fortnite,

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Executives see popular gaming platforms as "a new community channel that needs to be nurtured" to reach younger listeners. By Elias Leight At the end of 2023, the gaming platform Roblox announced that it had more than 71.5 million average daily active users.

Amazon has attributed the outage to a domain name system issue. DNS is the service that translates internet addresses into machine-readable IP addresses that connects browsers and apps with websites and underlying web services. DNS errors disrupt the translation process, interrupting the connection.

With dozens of games that copy Epic Games' success, or at the very least are inspired by it, Games Like Fortnite have become a significant trend in Roblox. Although Fortnite didn't create the Battle Royale genre, it has grown to be the largest in that ...