A problem at Amazon's cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world early Monday, taking down dozens of online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal.

Many of the world’s biggest websites and apps — including Snapchat, Roblox and several major UK banks — were knocked offline on Sunday after an outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), the tech giant’s cloud computing arm.

Hundreds of sites including Zoom, Duolingo and Lloyds bank are affected - Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue but a full recovery will take longer.

Usuarios de internet en todo el mundo enfrentaron una interrupción generalizada temprano el lunes debido a un problema en el servicio de computación en la nube de Amazon que afectó a docenas de servicios en línea importantes,