(Gray News) – A massive Amazon Web Services outage caused major disruptions around the world Monday.
While the outages lasted several hours, Amazon has said most systems should be back online and operating normally.
AWS customers include some of the world’s biggest businesses and organizations.
The cloud-based computer service hosts many websites for companies like the government, universities and many media organizations, to name a few.
Additionally, several users reported having issues on trying to use Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, the McDonald’s app and many other services, according to the Associated Press .
AWS began investigating the issue just after 3 a.m. (ET), according to its website . The company identified a potential cause for the errors around 5 a.m. (ET), saying it st