Disruptions lasted upward of two hours for most services, though some users—mostly in the United States—continued to see problems for over six hours. AWS announced at 5:27 a.m. ET that core issues had been resolved and most services were recovering, but intermittent disruptions persisted into the morning.

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.

Vice President Bob Wambach of Dynatrace says global economy's dependence on cloud providers creates risk of systemic outages lasting hours or days.

The outage has already caused delayed flights, prevented consumers from making purchases on certain apps, restricted access to financial services, and affected workers trying to carry out their jobs,

In the New Orleans area, ASAP Ankle Monitoring confirmed it's experiencing issues with its cloud-based case management system. However, the company's CEO, Matt Dennis, says the outage has not affected the tracking of offenders. He says each monitoring device is tracked using the manufacturer's independent servers, which are not cloud-based.

The outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday originated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region (Northern Virginia). AWS reports the root cau

The AWS outage is impacting high school and colleges today, downing the massive Canvas dashboard. He's what going on, the latest update.

AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals. Disruptions to its servers can cause outages across websites and platforms that rely on its cloud infrastructure.

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company.