Amazon internet outage hits major websites and mobile apps such as Snapchat. Here’s what we know

euro news - Some of the world's biggest apps and websites, such as Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, and Canva, have been hit by a major internet outage.

The issues began at around 9 a.m. CET on Monday, according to the tracking website Down Detector.

The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which offers the infrastructure that underpins much of the internet and gives its clients access to servers, databases, and storage without having to build their own infrastructure.

AWS's latest update is that there appears to be "significant error rates" for requests made to its data storage service DynamoDB in the "US-EAST-1 Region".

The US-EAST-1 region relates to services hosted in northern Virginia but the issues are also affecting its other services in that region.

Many of the outages appear to be concentrated in the United States, with a focus in Virginia, which is considered the global capital for data centres, according to website performance tracking site ThousandEyes.

"During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases," AWS added.

"Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause".

According to Down Detector, the sites affected include online games, mobile service providers, online games and the United Kingdom's tax authority HMRC, as well as French telecoms companies SFR and Free.

It also includes cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. It told its customers that "all funds are safe" in a message on X.

Here is the list: Snapchat, Slack, Signal, Tinder, 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.