Many of the world’s biggest apps and websites have been broken for hours in a worldwide outage.

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, and have been continuing through the day.

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

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, bringing down websites that might have no apparent connection to Amazon it

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