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.

According to the online outage tracker Downdetector, dozens of popular platforms began experiencing issues around 1:30 a.m. Central Time. Affected services included

From Reddit and Snapchat to Delta and Zoom, more than a thousand websites around the globe were knocked offline early Monday—and continued to have problems into the afternoon—after a major outage at Amazon Web Services,

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

The global AWS outage is affecting popular services like Fortnite, Roblox, Snapchat, and Alexa, leaving millions of people around the world disconnected.

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

Matt Garman became CEO of Amazon Web Services in June 2024. An AWS outage affected major platforms like Roblox and Zoom, disrupting banking services.