A number of major platforms are down around the world, including big hitters like Snapchat, Canva, Duolingo, and Roblox.
This is believed to be a result of an international problem affecting Amazon Web Services.
AWS is responsible for a lot of the back-end infrastructure of some of the world’s biggest websites and platforms, so when it has problems, we - and many other people - have problems too.
Snapchat, Duolingo, Canva, and Roblox are among the big sites that are down
On the AWS status page, a statement reads: "We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region.
“We will provide another update in the next 30-45 minutes."
At the time of writing, this issue is still ongoing.
It’s not just those wanting to extend their language learning streak or make up a snappy picture for an online article - an example close to home, there.
Banks are also experiencing outages too, with Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds reporting issues.
We’ll bring more as we have it, but here’s a full list of websites experiencing outages currently:
- Amazon.com
- Prime Video
- Alexa
- Ring
- Goodreads
- The New York Times
- Snapchat
- Slack
- Zoom
- Substack
- Robinhood
- Venmo
- Chime
- Coinbase
- Xero
- HMRC (UK tax authority)
- Roblox
- Fortnite
- PUBG (PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds)
- Rainbow Six Siege
- Clash Royale
- Clash of Clans
- Crunchyroll
- Apple TV
- Canvas (Instructure)
- CollegeBoard
- Canva
- Duolingo
- MyFitnessPal
- Strava
- Whatnot
- Life360
- Verizon
- Perplexity AI
- Flickr
- McDonald’s app
- Wordle
- Xbox Network
- PlayStation Network