Widespread Internet Outage Hits Sites Using Amazon Web Services

Amazon says its cloud computing service is experiencing an outage, disrupting several websites and apps.

Snapchat, Duolingo, and Roblox are down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

Other affected websites are:
Zoom
Clash Royale
My Fitness Pal
Life360
Clash of Clans
Fortnite
Canva
Wordle
Signal
Coinbase
Duolingo
Slack
Smartsheet
PokemonGo
Epic Games
PlayStation Network
Peloton
Rocket League.....

Banks are also affected by the outage, including Halifax, Lloyds and the Bank of Scotland, according to Downdetector.

According to an update provided by Amazon Web Services, the company has identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region.

They added "We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery."

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing division, and its infrastructure underpins millions of large companies' websites and platforms.

Source: BBC