Major internet outage hits Snapchat, Amazon and Vodafone - live updates

A major internet outage is affecting dozens of websites, online games and apps including Amazon, Snapchat and Vodafone.

Issues started this morning at around 8am this morning, and problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services, 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.

According to Downdetector, there are more than 2,000 reports of the Amazon Web Services outage in the US alone.

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