Snapchat is currently down due to a major outage linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS) experiencing widespread technical issues, especially in the US-East-1 region, a critical hub for many services. The outage began in the early morning hours of October 20, 2025, and Snapchat acknowledged the problem and is actively working on a fix. While AWS has stated it has "fully mitigated" the root of the problem, some disruptions may persist as the network propagates the fix and clears a backlog of requests. Experts suggest that because of the scale of the AWS outage, Snapchat and other affected services could experience intermittent disruption for the rest of the day on October 20, 2025. The exact time when Snapchat will be fully restored is unclear, but it is likely tied to the complete resolution of the AWS issues which might take several hours.

In summary, Snapchat is expected to remain down or unreliable for most of October 20, 2025, and users should monitor official updates from Snapchat and AWS for restoration progress.