The sun is rising on a recovering internet after an Amazon Web Services outage Monday took big-name services offline, like Duolingo, Roblox and Coinbase.

The big picture: The widespread outage demonstrated just how much of the internet depends on Amazon's cloud platform.

Driving the news: AWS said in a statement Monday morning that the issue had been "fully mitigated" but that some "requests may be throttled while we work toward full resolution." • In a later update, it said that it was "continuing to work towards full recovery for EC2 launch errors." EC2, or AWS' Elastic Compute Cloud, provides the computing power many apps and websites use to run. • In its most recent post, AWS said it was continuing to work to "fully restore new EC2 launches" and promised a further update by 5:30a

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