Multiple users around the world reported issues regarding connectivity issues with Amazon Web Services, impacting many of the world’s most popular internet services today, October 20. This included Epic Games, Fortnite, Roblox, Duolingo, and many more. The internet outage was first reported mid-afternoon Philippine time.
Downdetector.com, a popular website used by many netizens to check for widespread internet issues, pinged even more websites currently having issues. Several of the affected websites have also posted to inform users of the problem and are working to get things fixed as soon as possible.
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.
— Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) October 20, 2025
A widespread service provider outage is also affecting Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services, preventing a number of areas including log-ins.
We’re investigating this and will provide an update as we have more info.
— EOS Status (@EOSStatus) October 20, 2025
The most heavily affected services are Epic Games, Roblox, Zoom, Snapchat, and Reddit. But the majority of the internet is being affected by the ongoing internet outage, and even Steam and Canva have been reported to be having issues, among many others, with this widespread outage.
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[As of 5:50, PH time] Partial restoration has been observed across several platforms, though intermittent connectivity and performance issues persist in some regions, including Southeast Asia. (with additional information from Bianca Diane Beltran, Esports Inquirer intern)
[As of 7:00, PH time] Epic Games has reported that its services are fully operational again via X.
(This is a developing story.)
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