AWS denies global outage, blames ‘inaccurate speculation’ after Fortnite, Arc Raiders and other platforms suffer simultaneous outages

Several online gaming platforms suffered an outage on November 26. According to a statement from the AWS team, earlier coverage of the November 26 disruptions contributed to “some inaccurate speculation on social media,” especially as multiple high-traffic gaming services went down at nearly the same time. AWS emphasized that outages in external platforms do not necessarily point to a malfunction within its own cloud infrastructure, urging users to rely solely on the AWS Health Dashboard for verified service updates.



Despite this clarification, millions of users worldwide experienced significant disruptions on November 26, with Fortnite, Roblox, Arc Raiders suddenly going offline.


The simultaneous nature of the outages fueled the initial belief, now categorized by AWS as false speculation, that a widespread AWS failure was to blame.

Earlier information shared onlineasserted that Amazon’s central servers were responsible. AWS now stresses that such conclusions were premature and not supported by official diagnostics.

The timing created additional concern, with the disruptions occurring during one of the busiest online shopping weeks of the year. For users, the experience was the same, login errors, failed connections, and non-responsive services across gaming and social platforms.

The company is encouraging users and news outlets to verify all service-status claims through the AWS Health Dashboard, which it describes as “the only source online that provides reliable, real-time information about our service availability.”