AWS is the infrastructure underpinning much of the online world; as such, the outage is causing a cascade of issues online, with many users unable to access a wide range of services.

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

A United system outage caused by the AWS crash also reportedly caused long lines and disrupted check-ins and bag drop-offs across airports in the United States, according to the airline’s own X posts in response to customer complaints. The outage is yet to lead to massive delays, but Delta reported facing some minor ones.

Amazon Web Services restored systems after a global outage hit apps and banks, exposing heavy worldwide dependence on its cloud network.

Amazon Web Services' outage has disrupted services for over 1,000 firms, potentially costing billions in losses.

Many companies affected by Amazon Web Services outage - it knocked platforms like Zoom, Duolingo and Snapchat offline worldwide. A problem at Amazon Web Services has broken the internet...dozens of apps and websites stopped working following a huge outage.

At 6:03 am ET, the company said that it was seeing "recovery across most of the affected AWS Services."Many other online services that use AWS' cloud infrastructure, including Zoom, Strava, and Amazon's Alexa assistant,