At about 4:30PM ET on October 20, things seemed to be returning back to normal. Apps like Venmo and Lyft, which were either slow to respond or completely nonresponsive before, were appearing to behave smoothly.

(Gray News/AP) – A massive Amazon Web Services outage caused major disruptions around the world Monday. While the outages lasted several hours, Amazon has said most systems should be back online and operating normally. The company reported that 64 internal AWS services were affected by the issue.

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for

By Greg Bensinger, Shubham Kalia and Deborah Mary Sophia SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Monday that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites,

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

Early Monday, Amazon Web Services, the cloud backbone powering much of the internet, suffered a massive outage that lasted nearly 15 hours, disrupting hundreds of companies from Apple to McDonald’s, and even grounding parts of airline and finance operations.

The Amazon Web Services that affected apps and sites from Reddit to Roblox also caused some smart beds to overheat -- and some mattresses were stuck upright.