Major Outages Hit Twitch and Other Websites, Disrupting Gaming and Streaming
If you’ve been having trouble watching your favorite streamers on Twitch or getting onto Summoner’s Rift in League of Legends this morning, you aren’t alone. People across the world have been reporting several outages across major video games and websites.
This morning, Twitch users discovered that the entire website couldn’t load any streams. Individual stream chats also went offline shortly after. Additionally, other apps and games faced similar issues, either struggling to load or failing to load entirely.
In response to the outages, the Twitch Support Twitter account tweeted at 9:44am CT that the company is “aware of several issues affecting Twitch services.”
According to Downdetector, apps and sites like Twitch, the PlayStation Network, Netflix, Doordash, Skip the Dishes, Zoom, and Slack have all experienced outages. Major game titles including Halo Infinite, League of Legends, VALORANT, Clash Royale, Apex Legends, Fortnite, and Minecraft have also been affected.
While the exact cause of the massive outage is unknown, there is speculation that it may be related to Amazon Web Services. Nevertheless, developers are working diligently to restore the services, and some services have already started becoming operational again.
This article will be updated with any additional details as they become available.