A huge Amazon Web Services outage has taken out multiple web services including Alexa, Ring, Reddit, Snapchat and many more.
The issues appeared to start at around 7.40am BST when a large spike on Downdetector showed reported problems with Amazon Web Services – which in turn has taken down many services that rely on its cloud computing power.
The exact cause of the issues isn't clear, but the Amazon Web Services dashboard shows an "operational issue" in North Virginia. The AWS dashboard says "engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue" and recently posted that "we are seeing significant signs of recovery".
The knock-on effects appear to be widespread, including many banks.
Amazon services showing 'signs of recovery' after Snapchat and banks among sites hit by major outage
Many of the world's biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services
Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom and Roblox have all been impacted, as well as customers of banks including Lloyds and Halifax - here's what else has been hit
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing division, and its infrastructure underpins millions of large companies' websites and platforms
AWS says it is now "seeing significant signs of recovery" and most requests should now be succeeding
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