The internet kicked off the week the way that many of us often feel like doing: by refusing to go to work. An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable on Monday morning, with sites and services including Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo, the PlayStation Network and, predictably, Amazon, unavailable for a short period of time.

The outage began shortly after midnight PT, and took Amazon around three and a half hours to fully resolve. Social networks and streaming services were impacted, but critical services such as online banking were also taken down. You'll likely find most sites and services functioning as normal this morning, but some knock-on impacts will probably be seen throughout the day.

AWS is a cloud services provider owned by Amazon that p

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