AWS outage disrupts Battlefield 6 login and EA services

Thousands of players reported being unable to connect to Battlefield 6 servers on the evening of October 20 after a wave of internet outages tied to problems at Amazon Web Services disrupted online games and other popular apps. Users across multiple regions logged connection failures beginning in the afternoon, with a fresh spike in reports just before 5 p.m. British time, according to real-time outage tracking sites.

Players attempting to launch Battlefield 6 or sign into EA services were met with error messages indicating failed connections, and social media showed widespread frustration. One player wrote on social media, "Seriously Battlefield 6, you couldn't go down while I was at work? You just had to wait for me to get home." Another user reported being unable to connect to EA servers through either the EA app or the game itself.

Amazon Web Services identified the underlying issue as elevated error rates for requests to the DynamoDB endpoint in the us-east-1 region, and said those errors affected multiple AWS services in that region. AWS reported that services were beginning to return to normal, but warned that full recovery could take time because of increased latency and...