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Amazon Web Services, a cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet, experienced an outage early Monday, Oct. 20

The outage caused many apps and websites to go dark

It also impacted banking apps and government websites

If you were trying to access one of your favorite apps or login to work early Monday, Oct. 20, chances are, you encountered issues.

Amazon Web Services , a cloud service provider that supports much of the Internet and many online tools and apps, experienced an outage due to a problem with one of its core database products, the company shared with NBC News .

The issues lasted over two hours early Monday morning, starting just after 3 a.m. ET. At the time, AWS said it was “investigating increased error rates and latencies.” By 4:26 a.m. ET, t

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