{"id":708784,"date":"2026-07-24T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708784\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T12:27:17","slug":"psn-down-but-slowly-recovering-after-amazon-web-services-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/708784\/","title":{"rendered":"PSN Down But Slowly Recovering After Amazon Web Services Outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PSN Down with No Comment from Sony Yet 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.pushsquare.com\/6c1ba81c84a29\/psn-down-with-no-comment-from-sony-yet-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/psn-down-with-no-comment-from-sony-yet-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"PSN Down with No Comment from Sony Yet 1\"\/><\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n<p>Update [Fri 24th Jul 2026, 1:10pm]: After a brief outage which knocked almost all PSN features offline, the service is slowly beginning to recover.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Amazon Web Services \u2013 which powers a lot of the PSN \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/health.aws.amazon.com\/health\/status\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had a hiccup earlier today<\/a>, resulting in widespread issues around the world.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll continue to monitor the situation, but AWS has acknowledged the issues, and has said services are slowly returning to normal.<\/p>\n<p>While the PSN is still displaying some errors for me, it is beginning to return to normal, as I can now see my friends list and recently played games again.<\/p>\n<p>Original Story: PSN appears to be struggling globally, with <a href=\"https:\/\/status.playstation.com\/en-US\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sony\u2019s official status page<\/a> saying \u201call services are up and running\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/playstation-network\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Down Detector<\/a> shows a huge spike in reports over the past few hours in the US, which is gradually easing. In the UK, more reports are coming in as time passes.<\/p>\n<p>From my end, the entire network is down, including even game downloads and the PS App.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t see my most recently played games, Trophies, or browse my friends list or connect to game servers.<\/p>\n<p>Chatting with the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Push Square<\/a> team, we\u2019re all experiencing issues \u2013 although our mileage varies.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us can\u2019t even verify our game licenses to play digital games \u2013 not exactly ideal in this non-physical era Sony\u2019s trying to force us into.<\/p>\n<p>Others are able to at least see their recently played games, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/tags\/ps-store\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PS Store<\/a> is mostly broken. It seems like even <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-gb\/latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the web-based PS Store is offline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps5\/marvel_tokon_fighting_souls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marvel Tokon<\/a> beta \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/guides\/marvel-tokon-fighting-souls-open-beta-start-times-how-to-play-and-whats-included\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">out today<\/a> \u2013 is showing a \u2018Network Error\u2019 on PS5.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll continue to monitor the situation and contact Sony for an update. In the meantime, do let me know how you\u2019re getting on in your country via the comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square Update [Fri 24th Jul 2026, 1:10pm]: After a brief outage which knocked almost all PSN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,197,112,26296,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-psn","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708784","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=708784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}