This is because there's been an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage across all regions, including the US, EU, and even over here in the currently very dreary UK. It looks like this might be clearing up already,

Amazon employees said they were left in the dark during a massive outage ,' fueling claims the tech giant tested a so-called 'kill switch.'

"The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers," Amazon said in a status update.