Amazon Web Services outage hits major websites
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Fortnite, Roblox, Clash Royale and various other games and gaming services have been struck down by an "operational issue" with Amazon's web services today, though Amazon themselves promise that they're already seeing "significant signs of recovery".
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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
More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.
The outage at Amazon's cloud-based web services knocked out major sites like Hulu and Venmo, plus Amazon.com itself. But most websites are back online now.
Amazon Web Services has broken down and that means half the internet suddenly doesn’t work, including many prominent video games and services.