Amazon's Q3 earnings are expected to show strong momentum in retail, AI demand in cloud, and growth in advertising.

An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world.

Amazon Web Services has faced a major outage, affecting users worldwide trying to connect to various online services.

More than 1,000 companies had 6.5 million reports of disruption, including Snapchat, Reddit, Roblox and Lloyds bank.

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud service underpins a large chunk of the internet, accounting for about a third of the cloud market. Any outage has major ripple effects.

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.

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.

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said most services were back up after an issue caused outages at many websites.

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