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An Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 affected numerous popular websites and online services.
Services like Fortnite, United Airlines, Disney+, and AT&T experienced disruptions across the U.S.
Amazon reported the issue was mitigated by 7 a.m. EST, though some users might still see errors.
Amazon Web Services, along with almost a dozen web-based services under it, went down in the early morning hours of Oct. 20 and is still working to recover.
People across the Carolinas and the U.S. woke to outages affecting everything from Facebook and Fortnite to United Airlines, according to Downdetector.com, which gathers data on reported outages across the United States.
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