Amazon Web Services, Zoom and Duolingo
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After an issue in one of its US regions overnight, users in Europe have been unable to access services such as Zoom, Slack and Canva this morning - all of which run on AWS systems - and the issue has now spread to the US, where users are reporting problems, although Amazon claims a fix is coming soon. Follow our live updates below...
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