Disruption affecting Amazon Web Services has led to a spike in reported outages across a wide range of internet services including those of HM Revenue & Customs and Lloyds Banking Group.

Downdetector, a website which tracks complaints about online services, showed a spike in reports on Monday morning, including more than 2,681 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 500 reports of issues for the HMRC website by 9am.

Other services showing a spike in reported outages included Snapchat, Slack, Ring, Vodafone, Signal, Virgin Media, BT, EE and Sky.

Customers have also reported an increase in outage reports at UK banks, including Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – with 6,925 Downdetector outage reports at Lloyds at 9.31am.

A service health update by AWS posted at 9.26am on Monday said: “We can

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