Amazon Web Services outage hitting platforms around world 'showing signs of recovery'

Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo among platforms affected after problems at cloud provider AWS

Screengrab of the website for Amazon Alexa. Picture: PA

A major internet outage has hit dozens of websites and apps around the world, with users reporting troubles getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The affected platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company.