Huge AWS outage brings down Wordle, Roblox, Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and more gaming services – here’s what we know

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Cannot go fast right now in Sonic…

A screenshot of the Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds log in error

(Image credit: Sega)

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…

PlayStation Network status screen

(Image credit: Sony/PlayStation)

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.

Epic Games Store error screen

(Image credit: Future/Epic Games Store)

Fortnite being down is partnered by Epic’s own storefront failing to load or let me log in online.

The above error screen is what I get and have had all morning…

Fortnite massively affected

Fortnite login error screen

(Image credit: Future/Epic Games Store)

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.

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