how long is snapchat down for

Snapchat experienced a significant outage starting in the early morning hours of October 20, 2025, primarily due to a major internet disruption caused by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) failure, especially impacting AWS's North Virginia data centers. This issue affected Snapchat's ability to connect to its servers, causing login failures, message loading problems, and temporary disabling of accounts after repeated failed login attempts. The outage was tied to AWS’s problems with its Domain Name System (DNS) and other core services, which were acknowledged and "fully mitigated" by Amazon. However, the propagation of the fix across the internet and clearing of backlog requests meant that disruptions continued for much of the day. Users saw reports of the problem peak early on and gradually decline, but full recovery took hours. As of the latest updates on October 20, Snapchat remained down or unreliable for many users for most of the day and was not expected to be fully restored until the AWS issues were completely resolved, likely later in the day or possibly into the evening of October 20, 2025. No exact time for full restoration was given, and users were advised to wait while Amazon worked through the backlog and DNS propagation delays. In summary, Snapchat was down for several hours on October 20, 2025, potentially most of the day due to reliance on AWS infrastructure, with service restoration expected only after AWS fully resolved the issues and the internet-wide propagation of fixes was completed.