Massive Amazon cloud outage has been resolved
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Amazon experienced a massive outage affecting its e-commerce platform, AWS, and Alexa, impacting numerous third-party services like Snapchat and Venmo. Engineers identified a DNS issue as the root cause and are deploying fixes.
The Amazon Web services problem, which seems to be impacting other apps and websites like Snapchat, Lloyds Bank and Ring, has been acknowledged
A major outage caused by an issue at Amazon Web Services affected hundreds of websites, games and apps, including Amazon, Snapchat, Fortnite and several banks. Amazon says it fixed the underlying problem but a full recovery will take longer.
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Huge Amazon internet outage leaves Snapchat, Reddit, banks and more not working: Latest updates
Down Detector was flooded with huge spikes just after 8am UK time - with some issues coming back this afternoon