A significant outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) is impacting users worldwide on Monday. The cloud service is essential for many organizations, including government agencies, universities, and various media outlets. Users have reported difficulties accessing popular applications such as Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, and the McDonald’s app, among others. AWS began investigating the outage shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern Time. By 5 a.m. ET, the company identified a potential cause related to DynamoDB, a system used for managing database tables and indexes. In a post at 5:27 a.m. ET, AWS stated, "We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information." The outage highlights the reliance on cloud services for daily operations across various sectors. As AWS works to resolve the issues, users are advised to remain patient as services gradually return to normal.