New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Thousands of users worldwide reported that their favourite gaming platforms, including ARC Raiders, Steam, Fortnite and the Epic Games Store, stopped mid-play due to an alleged outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Christmas Day.

Users worldwide, particularly in the United States, have reported difficulties accessing multiple online services. According to Downdetector, more than 4,000 users reported issues around 9:30 PM EST on Wednesday.

However, AWS has rejected claims that its servers experienced any outage.

Netizens, who were just easing into the holiday season this morning, fumed at the outage and said that they shouldn't have to rely on "servers that get attacked every 2 weeks".

"Really sick of aws going d...