A major outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) caused widespread disruptions early Monday, impacting apps, financial platforms, and companies that rely on its cloud computing infrastructure, according to The Associated Press.

What we know:

The first signs of trouble emerged around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time when Amazon Web Services reported "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the U.S.-East-1 region.

Soon after, users across multiple platforms began reporting widespread outages on DownDetector, a website that tracks online disruptions. Apps such as Snapchat, Roblox, and Signal confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that they were experiencing issues connected to the AWS outage. Even The Associated Press was affected.

About two hours later, Amazon said it had a

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