{"id":212862,"date":"2025-10-20T09:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212862\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:56:08","slug":"snapchap-and-duolingo-among-apps-disrupted-amid-widespread-internet-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212862\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapchap and Duolingo among apps disrupted amid widespread internet outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major internet outage has disrupted several of the world\u2019s most popular apps and websites, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo, and Canva. <\/p>\n<p>The problems began around 8am on Monday and quickly spread, leaving millions of users unable to access key services.<\/p>\n<p>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 HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) website.<\/p>\n<p>The root of the disruption appears to be a widespread issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>According to AWS\u2019s official service status page, the company is experiencing \u201cincreased error rates\u201d and delays across \u201cmultiple AWS services,\u201d suggesting a significant infrastructure failure.<\/p>\n<p>AWS is the backbone of much of the modern internet, providing computing power, data storage, and other infrastructure services to a vast number of companies.<\/p>\n<p>Although many affected apps and websites have no visible connection to Amazon, they rely on AWS to function. As such, technical issues within AWS can have far-reaching consequences across the digital ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon Web Services is the world\u2019s leading cloud services provider. In 2024, it generated $108bn in revenue and is a major driver of Amazon\u2019s overall profitability.<\/p>\n<p>A service health update by AWS posted at 9.26am on Monday said: \u201cWe can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEngineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Affected services SnapchatRing RobloxClash RoyaleLife360My Fitness PalXeroCanvaAmazonAmazon Web ServicesAmazon MusicPrime VideoClash of ClansFortniteWordleDuolingoCoinbaseHMRCVodafonePlaystationPok\u00e9mon GoSTV News is now on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCESJzKgsNvKKNOYO2r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">      Follow STV News <\/a>Follow STV News on WhatsApp<\/p>\n<p>Scan the QR code on your mobile device for all the latest news from around the country<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/whatsapp-qr.png\" alt=\"WhatsApp channel QR Code\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major internet outage has disrupted several of the world\u2019s most popular apps and websites, including Snapchat, Roblox,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-212862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}