AWS outage causes huge problems for game logins

Amazon Web Services, the online retailer’s massive server infrastructure, went down on Tuesday, affecting thousands of its clients and causing outages all over the internet. Not only are Amazon’s own websites, like Prime Video and its online store, experiencing intermittent issues, numerous online video games and streaming services are facing issues as well.

Both Disney and Riot Games saw their logins completely cut off since the AWS outage. Players using Riot’s game client were logged outAnd aren’t able to log back in, preventing access to the developer’s games like League of Legends and Valorant. Games like Battlegrounds in PUBGThe outage may also have affected other people.

It turns out that AWS does not have to be completely useless. It was possible to enter a match with Fortnite, though there was some noticeable lag, but it’s not clear that it was AWS-related. Some games are still managing, but since so many companies use Amazon’s servers, the chances that something has been affected are pretty high.

According to Amazon’s AWS status page, most of these issues concern servers and controllers in its US-EAST-1 region, though it’s not clear how much that affects. Amazon also posted an update on its status page, which states that it’s investigating the increase in errors and working to recover them.

The story will continue to be updated when more information is available.