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Now the internet outage hits VAR! Premier League forced into making a major change for West Ham clash with Brentford due to AWS chaos

The Premier League has been forced into making an expected change to VAR technology after the system was affected due to the AWS outage wreaking chaos across the globe.

At 11:35 BST (6:35am ET), Amazon said the underlying issue has been 'fully mitigated', adding that 'most operations are succeeding normally now'.

But the company's Web Services cloud computing service - which powers much of the infrastructure behind many websites - continues to challenge its users into the evening, with West Ham's match against Brentford disrupted.

Rather than having access to VAR systems as normal, one recent innovation is not working, with the Premier League forced to share a statement ahead of kick-off.