‘Half of the internet’ just stopped working after major outage

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Duolingo, Fortnite, Snapchat, Canva and Roblox are among the sites affected, according to Down Detector.

The issues began at around 8am UK time.

It appears that the issues are related to issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

AWS is a cloud service that provides a lot of infrastructure that supports the internet and millions of companies across the globe.

The service accounts for the majority of Amazon's profits, and made $108 billion last year.

AWS supports a host of websites, ranging from games like Wordle to lifestyle apps like My Fitness Pal.

Even bank customers are reporting outages this morning, with Lloyds customers reporting that they have been unable to access their online banking.

Amazon have issued an update on the situation, and confirmed that they have now identified a potential root cause of the outage.

"We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region," they said.

"We are working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery."