Amazon’s cloud arm, AWS, began recovering on Monday after a major outage disrupted thousands of websites and popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit, affecting businesses across the globe.

The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year’s CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world’s interconnected technologies.

After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems were gradually coming back online as of 6:00 a.m. ET (1000 GMT), with AWS saying it was seeing “significant signs of recovery” for some impacted services.

“Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests,” it said in the latest update on the outage posted on its status page.

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