A huge outage of Web Services has knocked out many of the world’s biggest websites and apps – “Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds bank hit by Amazon Web Services internet outage –

A huge outage of Amazon Web Services has knocked out many of the world’s biggest websites and apps – here’s what we know so far

Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom and Roblox are among hundreds of sites hit, as well as Lloyds and Halifax banks, the UK’s National Rail and HMRC – what else is impacted?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) make the infrastructure underpinning millions of large companies’ websites and platforms

AWS says it is now “seeing significant signs of recovery” and most requests should now be succeeding

But some Snapchat users tell the BBC that while their account is back, they’ve lost all their friends on the app.Major internet outage affecting websites, games and apps
A major internet outage is affecting dozens of websites, online games and apps including Amazon, Snapchat and Vodafone.

Issues started this morning, and problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services.

According to Downdetector, there are more than 2,000 reports of the Amazon Web Services outage in the US alone.

On its service status page, the company said it was seeing “increased error rates” and delays with “multiple AWS services”.

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