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A widespread Amazon Web Services outage over the past 48 hours caused significant disruptions across several major online games, once again highlighting how deeply modern gaming depends on centralized cloud infrastructure. Popular titles such as Fortnite, Rocket League, and ARC Raiders experienced login failures, matchmaking issues, and server instability during peak play hours.

The outage affected core backend services responsible for authentication and real-time connectivity. While Amazon was able to restore service within hours, the impact on live service games was immediate and highly visible. Players reported being disconnected mid-match, unable to queue for ranked play, or locked out entirely.

Developers quickly acknowledged the situation through official channels, reassuring players that no progression data was lost. Even so, the incident reignited broader concerns about the fragility of always-online gaming. As more titles shift toward persistent online ecosystems, outages no longer affect just one game but entire segments of the industry at once.

Industry analysts note that while cloud services allow studios to scale globally, they also create single points of failure. Smaller developers in particular face difficult tradeoffs when considering redundancy solutions, which add significant operational cost. For players, the outage served as a reminder that even the biggest games remain vulnerable to infrastructure beyond the developers’ control.

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