Websites and services across the United States and around the world were recovering early Monday after a problem at a major cloud computing service left leading games, publishers and streaming platforms unusable to millions.

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and every day online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products, the company said.

The outage underlined the fragility of companies — including financial services — that use cloud-based servers to host their data, and how suddenly businesses across the globe can be impacted by an unplanned outage.

AWS first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an “operational issue” affecting 14 different services in its c

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