AWS outage takes down Snapchat, Canva, Roblox, and Duolingo
On Monday morning, October 20, 2025, a big outage left millions unable to use Snapchat, Roblox, Canva, Duolingo, and even Wordle.
Starting around 7:45am UK time, people flooded Downdetector with reports as logins, messaging, and content just wouldn't load.
AWS outage affected multiple apps
Turns out, the problem started at Amazon Web Services (AWS)—specifically their US-East-1 region in Virginia.
Since so many apps rely on AWS to run, one technical glitch there caused a chain reaction that took down a bunch of unrelated platforms all at once.
Outage shows how interconnected our digital lives are
This outage is a good reminder of how much we all depend on a few big cloud providers.
When one of them hits a snag, it can mess with how we chat, play, or get work done—showing just how connected (and fragile) our digital lives really are.