Thousands of people in the UK are experiencing issues with online services, including banking, social media, and shopping, due to a disruption affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Engineers are "immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause"
Amazon Web Services reports "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region" on its status page.
Engineers are working to resolve the issue.
Author's summary: UK internet services disrupted due to AWS outage.