New Delhi: A massive outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted major websites and apps across the world, bringing sections of the internet to a standstill. From Amazon’s own platforms to banking, gaming and AI services, users faced widespread disruptions for several hours.

According to outage-tracking site Downdetector, thousands of users in the United States reported problems accessing websites dependent on AWS servers. The fault, which began early Monday, affected cloud-based applications, streaming platforms, financial services and gaming networks. ADVERTISEMENT

Amazon acknowledged the issue and said its engineers were investigating the cause. While some services began to recover later in the day, several platforms continued to experience intermittent problems.

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