AWS outage hits much of the internet, impacting a long list of websites and apps, from Reddit to McDonald’s

The week is not off to a great start for much of the internet.

In the early hours of the morning Pacific time, internet users around the world began experiencing issues with accessing various apps, websites, and platforms. Shortly after, a culprit emerged: Amazon Web Services (AWS)—or, more specifically, an outage at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

Here’s what you need to know about the AWS outage and what websites are affected.

What’s happened?

At around midnight Pacific time, internet users around the globe began experiencing issues accessing high-trafficked parts of the internet.

Websites like Reddit, services like Lyft, and even apps from restaurant chains like McDonald’s seemed to be down or working intermittently.

The source of the problem was shortly found: AWS, Amazon’s cl