The UK government’s main website, including those of New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, Guardian UK, BBC, Financial Times were all down on Tuesday morning.
The portal gov.uk and the newspaper sites all showed error messages when searched.
The BBC was also initially temporarily inaccessible but later returned and some others.
The reason for the downtime could not be ascertained as of the time this report was filed but could be connected to the fact that Amazon’s cloud hosting service, AWS, is down.