AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?

A massive internet outage has hit that led to the malfunctioning of some major apps and websites. Some of the popular ones that got impacted are Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Duolingo, and Canva, to name a few. Tracking website Down Detector also suggested that these apps had been facing issues.

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.

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.

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