Snapchat is currently down due to a major outage linked to a significant disruption in Amazon Web Services (AWS), particularly in the US-East-1 (Northern Virginia) region, which is a central hub for many cloud services Snapchat relies on. The outage started in the early morning hours of October 20, 2025, and Snapchat acknowledged the issues publicly, urging users to be patient while they investigate and work on a fix. The AWS outage caused cascading problems for numerous services including Snapchat, impacting login functionality, messaging, and server connections. Although Amazon has announced it has “fully mitigated” the underlying DNS issue causing the internet disruption, complete restoration across all regions will take some time as AWS works through a backlog of requests and gradual propagation across the internet continues. Based on reports, the number of Snapchat users affected has declined throughout the day, but full recovery might still take several more hours or potentially until later on October 20, 2025. The disruption may persist for the remainder of the day as AWS stabilizes its services, after which Snapchat should return to normal operations. In summary, Snapchat is expected to remain down or unreliable for many users for a few more hours on October 20, 2025, with recovery hinging on the full resolution and global propagation of fixes by Amazon Web Services.