Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat , Roblox and several major banks offline for users in North America and Europe.
As of 11:35 a.m. U.K. time, “most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now,” according to the cloud computing division’s status page .
The outage affected Amazon services including Amazon Music, Prime Video, Ring and Alexa, as well as other apps and websites including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Signal, Duolingo, U.K. bank Lloyds and HM Revenue and Customs. According to BBC News , Downdetector received more than 4 million reports from users around the world for over 500 companies.
The outage began around 8 a.m. BST, and by 10:30 a.m. Amazon Web Services reported “significant signs of recovery.” The reas