Hundreds of thousands of websites and online services rely on Amazon’s cloud computing platform. Many were inaccessible on Monday. The week is not off to a great start for much of the internet.

A major outage in Amazon’s cloud services unit - AWS, has disrupted several popular apps including Fortnite and Snapchat, causing connectivity issues for companies worldwide.

Amazon's AWS outage meant big problems for large swaths of the internet. What have we learned in the past 24 hours?

A list of every website and app that’s not working as people panic over ‘half the internet’ being down following major Amazon Web Services outage.

Amazon’s cloud computer service is recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world for several hours on Monday.

A major outage has hit the internet just as Brits prepare to head to work for a new week. The issues are disrupting websites, apps, and services across the globe this morning. The problems seem to trace back to an issue with Amazon Web Service (AWS). It has confirmed that it is experiencing issues this morning (October 20).

A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.