Major internet outage disrupts Snapchat, Duolingo, Canva, Fortnite and other popular apps, sites
The outage appears to be linked to an issue at Amazon Web Services, which provides infrastructure for much of the modern internet.
Many of the world's biggest apps and websites stopped working properly today (20 October), The Independent reports.
Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva all experienced problems, according to the tracking website Down Detector.
The outage appears to be linked to an issue at Amazon Web Services, which provides infrastructure for much of the modern internet.
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Amazon reported increased error rates and delays with multiple AWS services on its service status page.
The issues began at around 8am in the UK, or midnight Pacific Time.
Amazon said the problems are affecting its facilities in north Virginia and are disrupting Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, both of which allow companies to rent storage and computing power for their services.
Down Detector showed a sudden surge in complaints, highlighting the widespread nature of the outage.
Here is a big list of everything that is showing as having problems on Down Detector. It includes everything from online games (Clash Royale and Roblox) to the UK's tax authority:
Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Clash Royale, Life360, My Fitness Pal, Xero, Canva, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Music, Prime Video, Clash of Clans, Fortnite, Wordle, Duolingo, Coinbase, HMRC, Vodafone, Playstation, Pokémon Go
