🚨 Major Outage Alert! 🚨
Heads up, everyone! HMRC is asking folks not to ring them unless it’s urgent after a widespread internet outage took down their website. It’s all linked to a disruption with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which seems to be causing havoc with loads of online services, including Halifax, Lloyds, and many others. 📉💻
Early Monday morning, Downdetector reported thousands of issues popping up for AWS and HMRC among others. Services like Snapchat, Slack, Ring, Vodafone, Signal, Virgin Media, BT, EE, and Sky are also feeling the pinch. Even major UK banks like Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland have been hit, reporting a surge in outages. 💥📱
AWS has identified potential issues with its DynamoDB in the US-EAST-1 Region, causing trouble not just there but also impacting global services linked to it. They’re on it though, with engineers working full-throttle to get everything back up and running ASAP. 🔧🔍
HMRC is on the case too, collaborating with AWS to sort things out. They know their phone lines are busier than a beehive, so they’re recommending you hold off on non-urgent calls until things settle down. 📞🐝
Stay tuned for updates and hang in there! Let’s hope for a speedy resolution to this digital drama. ✨⌛
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