PSN Among Dozens of Other Online Services Affected by AWS Outage 1
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Update #3 []: Approximately 24 hours after an AWS outage caused chaos around the globe, you should find your games are working as intended again now.

While the PSN remained relatively sturdy throughout, many players did report hiccups beginning early morning on 20th October.

Worse, the outage struck dozens of individual games, including Gran Turismo 7, Genshin Impact, and several Ubisoft releases.

You should find the issues mostly resolved at this point, but this is a cautionary reminder of our overreliance on online services, and what can happen when they go down.

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Update #2 []: While many services affected by the AWS outage are beginning to recover, others are still impacted.

Some of Ubisoft’s servers have been struck, rendering some games or features from the French publisher wobbly. That includes titles like The Division 2 and Rainbow Six Siege.

There’s been a steady increase of users reporting issues with the PSN again as well, even though Sony’s status page is still reporting everything is okay.

It looks like the disruption is probably going to continue for a good few hours now, and while your mileage may ultimately vary, do keep in mind you may have problems with your favourite games due to this.

Update #1 []: The AWS outage is beginning to improve and fewer people are reporting issues with the PSN specifically.

Gran Turismo 7 was also a game that was impacted by the outages, but will hopefully recover imminently.

So all should be well in a few hours, although our continued reliance on these servers has once again been brought into sharp focus.

Original Story: If you’re having issues connecting to PSN right now, you’re not alone.

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is currently impacting dozens upon dozens of online systems, including Sony’s gaming network.

While we’re currently connected, the service does seem shaky in our neck of the woods. DownDetector shows a significant increase in outage reports over the past two hours.

PlayStation’s own network tracker is not currently flagging any issues, but beyond the platform itself, individual games like Fortnite and Roblox are also struggling.

We’d expect a global outage as widespread and damaging as this to be resolved relatively quickly, and as mentioned earlier in the article, your mileage may vary.

This one goes beyond just PSN, though – banking apps, social networks, and communication hubs are all affected.

You may just have to take a trip to the Winchester and ride this one out, folks.

[source bbc.com, via downdetector.com]