Many popular apps and websites are currently down due to a major outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is a critical cloud infrastructure provider for much of the internet. The outage, centered in the US-EAST-1 Region data center in northern Virginia, has affected a wide range of services including Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Duolingo, Canva, Reddit, Coinbase, and several banks. AWS offers cloud computing and storage resources that these platforms depend on to run, so problems at AWS can cause widespread disruptions across many unrelated apps. The issue began around October 20, 2025, early morning Pacific time, and has caused significant connectivity problems and service outages. Engineers at AWS are investigating the root cause and working on mitigation. Although some services have started recovering, issues persist with several platforms. Overall, this incident highlights the internet's heavy reliance on centralized cloud providers like AWS, where a failure in one major data center can cause outages across a large portion of the web and app ecosystem.