Tom Gerken
Technology reporter

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As we said a little earlier, there are now reports that customers of several banks are also facing issues.

Lloyds, as well as its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, are all facing thousands of reports of outages, according to Downdetector.

People have reported being unable to log in to their online and mobile banking apps, and there are also reports on social media that some people have had card payments declined – although the BBC has not been able to independently verify this.

It is also not known whether this is linked to the Amazon Web Services outage, or a separate issue.

Lloyds has been approached for comment.

Tom Gerken
Technology reporter

It’s hard to say just how many apps have been knocked out by this, but suffice to say it isn't a short list - at least according to Downdetector, a site where people report outages:

• Snapchat
• Zoom
• Roblox
• Clash Royale
• My Fitness Pal
• Life360
• Clash of Clans
• Fortnite
• Canva
• Wordle
• Signal
• Coinbase
• Duolingo
• Slack
• Smartsheet
• PokemonGo
• Epic Games
• PlayStation Network
• Peloton
• Rocket League… the list goes on and on

Even the website for the UK’s tax authority HMRC is named as not working properly - and when we tested it, it displayed an error message.

Of course, remember these are just reports. It is possible that many of these platforms may be working well for some but not others.

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Liv McMahon
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the tech giant's cloud computing division, and its infrastructure underpins millions of large companies' websites and platforms.

Many of the apps on your smartphone are actually running on AWS data centres.

In an update on its service status page where it highlights any problems, it said it could confirm "significant error rates for requests" to one of its endpoints for services in its US-EAST-1 region.

Banks are also apparently affected by the outage, including Halifax, Lloyds and the Bank of Scotland, according to Downdetector.

As a reminder, Amazon Web Services powers much of the infrastructure behind many websites, which is why the impact is so widespread.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is part of the retail giant Amazon, says in an update on its status page there are "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region".

Engineers are "immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause", it adds.

User reports of issues affecting platforms are spiking, according to platform outage monitor Downdetector - with more than 5,000 issues flagged by Snapchat users.

Here's some of the brands users are reporting issues with:

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Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

The BBC has approached Snapchat and Amazon for comment.

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