Amazon on Monday afternoon said its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit is continuing to experience problems, hours after it had said it was recovering from an outage that started earlier in the day. The stalled recovery is causing ongoing issues for websites and apps around the world.

The Amazon unit provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies. Early Monday, users reported issues with Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald's app and many others, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages.

Even Amazon's own services weren't immune. Users of the company's Ring doorbell cameras and Alexa-powered smart speakers posted on DownDetector that they weren't working, while others said the

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