World's most popular apps stop working in major internet outage

Multiple users are reporting significant issues with a whole host of different websites and apps in a major internet outage.

The internet issues started in the early morning of October 20, and many people have complained that their most reliable apps and websites are failing to work.

Downdetector, which tracks user complaints for web service, has shown a sudden and widespread outage. This has included Amazon Web Services, Snapchat, Canva, Duolingo, and Ring.

Meanwhile, other sites and applications that seem to have been affected also include the likes of Roblox, Clash Royale, Life360, My Fitness Pal, Xero, Amazon Music, Prime Video, Clash of Clans, Fortnite, Wordle, Coinbase, HMRC, PlayStation and Pokémon Go.

While these apps and companies are not often associated with one another, the internet issues seem to be tied to Amazon Web services.

Users have taken to reporting the web and app issues they have been having (Downdetector)

The company offers infrastructure to these services and companies and ensures much of the modern internet runs properly.

The issues began around midnight (PT), with the Amazon's service status page seeing ‘increased error rates’ and delays with ‘multiple AWS services’.

An update on the website says that engineers are 'immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause'.

"We will provide an update in 45 minutes, or sooner if we have additional information to share." its adds.

According to the company, the issues are affecting Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, both of which allow companies to rent storage and computers to run their services.

People have taken to social media to complain about the outage (Getty Stock Image)

It is now the most popular provider of such cloud services in the world. It made $108 billion last year, and it now accounts for the majority of Amazon’s profits.

Fortnite, one of the apps struck in the outage, took to their social media to inform users of the ongoing issue.

In a X (formerly Twitter) post, they wrote: “An outage affecting several services on the internet is also impacting Fortnite log-ins. We're investigating this now, and will update you when we have more details.”

The outage has left some people panicked on social media, as one person wrote on X: “Holy s*** the whole f****** internet is down."

Another said: “Wow Amazon Web Services went down and took half the internet with it.”

A third wrote: “Of all the things I could've expected today I was NOT expecting the whole internet to go down.”

LADbible Group has reached out to AWS for comment.