WASHINGTON — The internet appears to be recovering after an overnight outage at Amazon Web Services caused major disruptions to popular websites around the world.

Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is a major cloud hosting site that underpins much of the internet. AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.

The problem affected hundreds of sites, including some of the largest in the world.

Amazon, Venmo, Hulu, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Slack, Fortnite and Microsoft365 were some of the major websites and web services affected.

The outage appears to have begun around 3 a.m. Eastern Monday morning, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks online outages. On its website, Downdetector acknowledged the widespread problem with a banner on top of the site.

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