The internet appears to be recovering after a major outage knocked out thousands of websites, including Amazon, Snapchat, Reddit and several banks.

Downdetector, a website that tracks complaints about outages, showed thousands of problems on Monday morning.

The issue originates from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which describes itself as "the world's most comprehensive" cloud service.

Internet outage - as it happened

It offers companies a virtual backbone, giving them access to servers, databases and storage without having to build their own infrastructure.

Millions of businesses are thought to use AWS and everything from Amazon's Alexa to the Bank of Scotland to crypto company Coinbase, Duolingo, Fortnite, Halifax, HMRC, Lloyds Bank, Roblox and more were affected by this morning's issue

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