Amazon's web service platform that underpins hundreds of popular apps is down - creating errors for users of Snaptchat , Fortnite and Duolingo.

Shortly after 8am BST, outage tracking site DownDetector said it had logged 6,000 reports from affected customers in the US.

There are another 1,600 users in the UK also experiencing issues. The numbers are continuing to rise.

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AWS identifies 'potential root cause' as it recommends customers 'continue to retry'

AWS has released an update on the outage, revealing in the latest statement that a "potential root cause" of the issue is an issue "with DNS resolution".

AWS representatives said: "We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region. Based on our investigation, t

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