A global outage hit Amazon’s cloud services for several hours on Monday, the subsidiary of the US tech giant said, disrupting many websites and services including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat and Duolingo.

The maintenance site for Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it took some three hours for engineers to largely fix the problem, which they first noticed when “increased error rates” hit multiple services.

By 1035 GMT, the issue had been corrected “and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now”, it said. Some services, though, continued to be disrupted.

During the outage, many other online services were affected, according to Downdetector, a website monitoring internet problems. They included Reddit, various video streaming platforms such as Hulu and Dis

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