Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

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Dozens of the world's biggest sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are having issues - Amazon Web Services says it's identified a "potential root cause".

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including Fortnite and Snapchat.

Internet users across the globe suffered disruption as a result of a widespread outage that hit dozens of major websites and apps using Amazon Web Services. Sites including Facebook, Snapchat, Amazon and Roblox appeared to be down early Monday,

A major internet outage has hit dozens of websites and apps around the world, with users reporting troubles getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service. The affected platforms include Snapchat,

Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage today, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps, including Fortnite and Snapchat.

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including Fortnite and Snapchat.