{"id":214921,"date":"2025-10-21T07:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214921\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T07:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:18:08","slug":"psn-services-stabilise-after-global-aws-outage-caused-chaos-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/214921\/","title":{"rendered":"PSN Services Stabilise After Global AWS Outage Caused Chaos Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PSN<\/a>Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

Update #3 [Tue 21st Oct 2025, 7:30am]: Approximately 24 hours after an AWS outage caused chaos around the globe, you should find your games are working as intended again now.<\/p>\n

While the PSN remained relatively sturdy throughout, many players did report hiccups beginning early morning on 20th October.<\/p>\n

Worse, the outage struck dozens of individual games, including Gran Turismo 7<\/a>, Genshin Impact<\/a>, and several Ubisoft releases.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Update #2 [Mon 20th Oct 2025, 6:45pm]: While many services affected by the AWS outage are beginning to recover, others are still impacted.<\/p>\n

Some of Ubisoft\u2019s servers have been struck, rendering some games or features from the French publisher wobbly. That includes titles like The Division 2<\/a> and Rainbow Six Siege<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a steady increase of users reporting issues with the PSN again as well, even though Sony\u2019s status page is still reporting everything is okay.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Update #1 [Mon 20th Oct 2025, 1pm]: The AWS outage is beginning to improve and fewer people are reporting issues with the PSN specifically.<\/p>\n

Gran Turismo 7<\/a> was also a game that was impacted by the outages, but will hopefully recover imminently.<\/p>\n

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

Original Story: If you\u2019re having issues connecting to PSN right now, you\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is currently impacting dozens upon dozens of online systems<\/a>, including Sony\u2019s gaming network.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re currently connected, the service does seem shaky in our neck of the woods. DownDetector<\/a> shows a significant increase in outage reports over the past two hours.<\/p>\n

PlayStation\u2019s own network tracker is not currently flagging any issues, but beyond the platform itself, individual games like Fortnite<\/a> and Roblox<\/a> are also struggling.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d 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.<\/p>\n

This one goes beyond just PSN, though \u2013 banking apps, social networks, and communication hubs are all affected.<\/p>\n

You may just have to take a trip to the Winchester and ride this one out, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square Update #3 [Tue 21st Oct 2025, 7:30am]: Approximately 24 hours after an AWS outage caused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,197,112,26296,622,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-214921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-psn","tag-sony","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}