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Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT and more taken down by major AWS outage

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/10/Alexa-Snapchat-Fortnite-ChatGPT-and-more-taken-down-by-major-AWS-outage.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>A major Amazon Web Services outage resulted in many different platforms and services being taken down for many users in the US. This includes <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/amazon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amazon[/url], <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/alexa/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Alexa[/url], <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/snapchat/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Snapchat[/url], <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/fortnite/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Fortnite[/url], <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/chatgpt/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ChatGPT[/url], and more.</p>



<p>The problem first occurred shortly after midnight PDT. The company identified the cause a couple of hours later and says that it is now “continuing to observe recovery” across most services …</p>



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