And numerous more companies joined the list later. Among those companies being hit were Bandwidth, which is based in Raleigh, and Epic Games, publisher of Fortnite. The outage affected internet and cloud providers as well as major sites such as Google and Facebook. Amazon, whose web services division powers a wide ranges of online services, indicated its network wasn't the cause of the problem and that connectivity issues for its Amazon Web Services customers were resolved around 12:45 p.m., after an hour and a half. Google said it also had not found issues with its own services and was investigating. For updates, check out Downdetecor's Twitter feed. Big internet outage strikes US, hitting wide variety of services, companies, then eases