Tom Gerken
Technology reporter

As we’ve been reporting, many of the world’s biggest websites and apps are down due to an outage affecting Amazon Web Services. If you’re just joining us, here’s a recap of what we know so far:

• Hundreds of websites and apps were knocked offline this morning after an issue at Amazon Web Services in the US
• The cloud computing giant powers services for a huge number of platforms, including Snapchat, Roblox and Lloyds Bank
• Downdetector, used by many to flag problems with online services, says it has seen more than four million reports from users globally, across more than 500 companies
• At around 10:30 BST, Amazon said it was seeing “significant signs of recovery” and, in further updates, said “global services and features” were also recovering
• While this is true of many platforms, some appear to still be experiencing problems – or fresh issues, in the case of Reddit
• We don’t know the full details of what has caused a number of critical AWS services to fall offline this morning, but Amazon says it “appears to be related to DNS resolution” related to the way firms access its web servers