Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites have suddenly stopped working properly.

Snapchat , Roblox , Fortnite , Duolingo and Canva were all suffering problems, according to tracking website Down Detector.

The issues began around 8am in the UK, or midnight pacific time.

The problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services (AWS) , which offers infrastructure that underpins much of the modern internet.

The company was seeing “increased error rates” and delays with “multiple AWS services”, it said on its service status page.

Amazon Web Services provides a host of internet infrastructure services that allow companies to hire computers and servers to run their apps and websites. As such, any problems at AWS can quickly affect much of the rest of the internet, b

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