Snapchat and several banks among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage | BBC News

Many of the world's biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services.

Snapchat, Duolingo, Zoom and Roblox have all been impacted, as well as customers of banks including Lloyds and Halifax.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's cloud computing division, and its infrastructure underpins millions of large companies' websites and platforms.

AWS says it is now "seeing significant signs of recovery" and most requests should now be succeeding.

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Post from BBC News on October 20, 2025

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