A number of websites and online apps are down due to major outage

A major internet outage is affecting dozens of websites, online games and apps including Amazon, Snapchat and Vodafone.

Problems appear to be related to an issue at Amazon Web Services.

According to Downdetector, there are more than 2,000 reports of the Amazon Web Services outage in the US alone.

They company says it is seeing “increased error rates” and delays.