Amazon services 'recovering' as Snapchat and banks among sites hit by outage

Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.

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More than 1,000 apps and websites - including social media platforms like Snapchat and banks such as Lloyds and Halifax - were impacted by problems that Amazon said were at the heart of the cloud computing giant's operations in the US.

The platform outage monitor Downdetector said user reports of problems globally soared to more than 11 million during the outage on Monday.

Even after Amazon fixed the underlying problem, experts said the outage demonstrated the perils of having so many companies rely on a single, dominant provider.

"What this episode has highlighted is just how interdependent our infrastructure is," said Prof Alan Woodward of the University of Surrey.