Amazon, Roblox, Snapchat, The New York Times’ Wordle and 23 other websites and apps are down at the same time.
Downdetector shows disruptions began at around 7.30am, with hundreds of people saying apps are not working.
Other apps with reported outages include the security service Ring, video game Fortnite,
Many of the applications operate on Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing platform that lets people ‘rent’ servers without the need to buy physical computers or data centres.
Duolingo says the language learning app is undergoing a ‘maintenance break’, while Worlde asks users to: ‘Please try again later.’
The issues began around 8am in the UK, or midnight pacific time.
The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers infrastructure that underpins much of the modern internet.
The company was seeing “increased error rates” and delays with “multiple AWS services”, it said on its service status page.
Amazon Web Services provides a host of internet infrastructure services that allow companies to hire computers and servers to run their apps and websites. As such, any problems at AWS can quickly affect much of the rest of the internet, bringing down websites that might have no apparent connection to Amazon itself.
It is now the most popular provider of such cloud services in the world. It made $108 billion last year, and it now accounts for the majority of Amazon’s profits.
