Video Games Were Affected by the Amazon Web Service Outage

Many connected services, including some popular video games, appear to have been badly hampered by a recent Amazon Web Service outage.

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Amazon web service outage disturbed gamers to play video games. Gamers are hampered for AWS outage reasons.

A lot of Amazon Web Services users reported the service being down early today, resulting in a broad outage of numerous online services. Given how many pies Amazon has a hand in, the ripple effects appear to have affected a sizable portion of the internet community. Fans of video games have been hit surprisingly hard, as Amazon Web Services appears to have taken down a number of prominent gaming services with it.

Despite the fact that Amazon's gaming section, Amazon Games, has generated very few games, the company's technology is used in a number of blockbuster titles and services. The downtime of Amazon could have an impact on these games. The popular streaming site Twitch and the battle royale shooter Apex Legends are also on this list.

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Unfortunately, many Apex Legends gamers were unable to connect due to the Amazon Web Services outage. This really is related to Apex Legends' use of Amazon Web Services, according to the official Twitter account for Alpha Intel, an account that distributes Titanfall and Apex Legends-related updates. Because many games use Amazon Web Services, and Apex Legends is just one of them, gamers may not have immediately drawn the connection between the two services being down.

⚠️ There is a widespread outage of internet services, caused by Amazon Web Services being down.

If you can't connect to Apex Legends, this is why. pic.twitter.com/4Pn8zwhQmX

— Alpha Intel (@alphaINTEL) December 15, 2021

As veteran online gamers are constantly exposed to server troubles, Apex Legends fans may be used to the game coming down unexpectedly. According to Alpha Intel, Amazon Web Services is currently operational, thus Apex Legends players should be able to connect once more. Any future troubles with the game being unavailable are most likely due to issues with Respawn Entertainment rather than Amazon. Regardless, Apex Legends players may have learned a valuable lesson about how interwoven the internet economy has gotten over time—and how essential Amazon has become to many aspects of online activity, including gaming—from this outage.

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PlayStation Network, Quickbooks Online, Xbox Live, Halo, EA, and Call of Duty appear to be among the other services impacted by Amazon Web Services' outage as of this writing. On top of issues with Amazon's online shopping service, previous issues with the service have caused issues with Disney Plus, League of Legends, PUBG, and Valorant. Apex Legends goes down when Amazon is down, but it also goes down when Google is down, according to one user who responded to the Apex Intel warning. The enraged player went on to speculate that Apex Legends is constantly ready to break down at any moment.