A major cloud services outage has impacted websites including Canva, Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon and others globally, including in Australia, affecting potentially millions of users.

The issue is related to Amazon Web Services – tech giant Amazon’s cloud services arm – and the AWS status checker shows that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues.

The company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region”, it says, though the issues are affecting websites globally.

Cloud computing is part of the backbone that runs the internet. Everything from start-ups to large enterprises use AWS. Netflix streams video through it, Airbnb runs their platform on it and countless companies host websites and applications there.

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