PSN Down But Slowly Recovering After Amazon Web Services Outage
Push Square • • technology
Key Points:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) is identified as the likely cause of the ongoing PlayStation Network (PSN) outage, with recovery efforts currently underway and functionality expected to be fully restored within the next hour or two.
- AWS reports that as network routes are restored, users should experience fewer errors and timeouts, and they are closely monitoring the situation to return service metrics to normal levels.
- The PSN outage has affected multiple features globally, including friends lists, game downloads, trophies, and the PS Store, with varying degrees of impact reported by users in different regions.
- Sony has not yet officially acknowledged the outage on its service status page, which still indicates that all services are operational despite widespread user reports and data from Down Detector.
- The disruption is impacting digital game license verification and new releases, such as the Marvel Tokon beta on PS5, which is showing network errors, highlighting the broad scope of the service interruption.
