A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage took down multiple online services for several hours this morning, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, ChatGPT, Epic Games Store, Epic Online Services, and more. Some of the impacted platforms, including Fortnite, Epic Games Store, and Perplexity had announced that they are fully recovered and back online earlier this morning, while others are still having issues.

The AWS dashboard first reported issues affecting the US-EAST-1 Region at 3:11AM ET, and eventually said that “The underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated.” According to Amazon’s latest notes, “the issue originated from within the EC2 internal network,” and the most recent update was published at 12:13PM ET:

We have taken additional mitigation steps to aid the recovery of

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