According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is experiencing a major service outage, meaning globally popular apps and services such as Snapchat, Amazon Alexa, Fortnite and Duolingo have reportedly stopped working. AWS’s online status checker is reporting an “operational issue” affecting “multiple services”.

DOZENS of games, apps and banks went down after a global outage this morning. Roblox gamers, Snapchat users and Halifax customers were among those battling to access platforms following a server

If the Amazon app is not working on your device, there are a handful of troubleshooting steps you can take.

Amazon’s Alexa was one of the many tech services impacted by a major Amazon Web Services outage that started Monday morning, Oct. 20.

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

The Amazon Web services problem, which seems to be impacting other apps and websites like Snapchat, Lloyds Bank and Ring, has been acknowledged by the company.

You can reset an Amazon Echo speaker by pressing buttons on the physical device or via the Alexa app.