Snapchat, Fortnite, Starbucks and more websites were down Monday after issue with Amazon Web Services. Here's what to know and when it may be fixed.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has had a bad day. That's how the boss of another big US tech firm Cloudflare put it – probably feeling very relieved that today's outage, hitting over 1,000 companies and affecting millions of internet users, had nothing to do with him.

Most things seemed like they were coming back to normal, but now it seems shakier and people are wondering what Amazon Web Services have said and why AWS is so important to all of these applications running smoothly and not causing the entire internet outage feeling like the world’s gone down in flames.

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

A massive Amazon Web Services outage took down dozens of major websites and apps early Monday, affecting platforms like Disney+, Reddit, Lyft, and United Airlines.

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.

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 service disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's popular cloud hosting and data service, caused massive problems for internet users starting their workweek on Monday. Since AWS powers huge portions of the internet, the list of services and sites that suffered outages on Monday was pretty staggering.