Overview
- Steam users worldwide reported problems on December 24, with Downdetector logging more than 14,000 complaints by 22:08 MSK.
- Roughly 82% of Steam reports cited loss of server connection, with the highest volumes coming from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- U.S. users reported issues with Amazon Web Services on December 25, rising from about 04:35 MSK and peaking at 4,319 complaints around 06:50 MSK.
- Downdetector still showed 4,310 AWS-related reports at 07:36 MSK, indicating a sustained volume of user complaints in the U.S.
- AWS underpins widely used services such as S3 storage and EC2 compute, which underscores potential downstream effects when problems occur.