More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

Games of all types, from Fortnite to Wordle to Roblox have been affected by the AWS outage. Problems started at about 7.30am BST (that's 2.30am ET) when gamign services started having huge spikes on the outage-detecting website Downdetector.

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A major internet outage hit on October 20. Snapchat and many other popular apps like Roblox and Canva stopped working. Users could not log in or load messages. The disruption was caused by problems at Amazon Web Services.