Overview
- Players reported widespread login failures, matchmaking errors and timeouts across Epic titles along with disruptions to Steam and PlayStation Network.
- ARC Raiders drew roughly 35,000 outage reports in the U.S. and AWS-related complaints topped about 4,000, according to Downdetector.
- Common error messages included ART00004 network timeout and ARAU0297 online services unavailable, pointing to backend timeouts and authentication issues.
- Amazon Web Services said its systems were operating normally and urged users to consult the AWS Health Dashboard for authoritative availability information.
- The incident echoes earlier 2025 outages and has renewed concerns about dependence on a few cloud providers for critical online services.