what is happening to snapchat right now

Right now, Snapchat is experiencing a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide. This outage began early on October 20, 2025, and is linked to a widespread issue with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which hosts much of Snapchat's cloud infrastructure. Many Snapchat users have reported being unable to log in, send or receive messages, and some have been temporarily locked out with error messages. The outage coincides with AWS problems centered in the US-East-1 (Northern Virginia) region, impacting several other popular online services as well. Amazon has acknowledged the issue and stated it has "fully mitigated" the underlying problem, but service restoration is still ongoing and may take some time to propagate to all affected users due to server backlogs. Snapchat has communicated awareness of the problem and is actively working to resolve it. Some services impacted by this outage include Fortnite, Roblox, Coinbase, Venmo, and others relying on AWS cloud services. The Snapchat outage has caused significant disruption for its approximately 932 million monthly active users as of October 2025. Recovery progress is reported but intermittent issues may continue throughout the day until AWS fully stabilizes its network operations.