The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.

A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is wreaking havoc on the Internet. In an update Monday morning, Amazon said that it is “still experiencing elevated errors.” A massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage is affected major websites and apps on Monday. Downdetector is even running a breaking news bar at the top of the site.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

Services disrupted included major retailers, airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more. Amazon said its systems have recovered.

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

Amazon Web Services this week introduced AWS for Health, a range of services aimed at helping healthcare and life science organizations reach their goals. "AWS for Health provides proven and easily accessible capabilities that help organizations increase ...

Amazon confirmed the glitch at 3:51 a.m. ET, and said by 6:35 a.m. ET the issues had been addressed. Companies that use Amazon Web Services are recovering after a problem with the cloud service disrupted operations at a wide range of companies Monday. 1