AWS faces disruption, several online gaming platforms affected. Here's what to know
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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) disruption is not only limited to individual games, but many related platforms have also been impacted by the outage.
A major outage has hit ad Amazon Web Services (AWS), severely impacting several popular online gaming platforms, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector. Thousands of users were affected worldwide, including the US. Over 4,000 users were impacted by the outage in the US, while nearly 35,000 players across the world reported being unable to connect to its servers.
The AWS is yet to respond on the outage that began on Wednesday. The disruption is not only limited to individual games, but related platforms like Epic Games Store and PlayStation Network have also been impacted, claim users on various social media platforms.
This has come at a time when when online gaming activity typically surges, thus adding to the frustration of gamers.
Frequent outages becoming norm?
Such incidents have become a frequent occurrenc. In October , a large AWS outage affected platforms like Amazon Prime Video, Perplexity AI and Snapchat. Thousands of users had reported problems then, according to Downdetector. Roblox, McDonald’s, Coinbase, Canva and Goodreads were among other platforms to be affected.
While in November, Cloudflare, which protects millions of websites from cyberattacks, suffered faced a short outage due to which platforms like Zerodha, Groww, Canva and Downdetector had to face problems.
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