AWS is down – and taken whole chunks of the internet with it

Large parts of the internet are suffering widespread issues this morning after a possible outage took down parts of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

According to data from real-time outage monitoring service DownDetector, the incident began at roughly 12:00 ET/15:30 GMT, with thousands of users having registered problems across Europe, Asia and the US.

Along with Amazon.com, other major websites including Facebook, Disney Plus, Ring and more appear to be suffering issues, alongside Amazon services such as Alexa and Prime Video.

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Amazon’s official status page has been updated with messages confirming the outage.

This is a breaking news story, and will be updated as we get more information…