Amazon Web Services , a cloud computing service run by Amazon, experienced a significant outage that disrupted numerous websites early on Oct. 20.

As of 6:35 a.m. EST, AWS said in a statement that the issue has been mostly resolved and it would "continue to work toward full resolution."

According to Downdetector , an outage-tracking website, several large platforms were experiencing issues or outages, including Amazon, Snapchat, Ring, Fortnite and more.

The outage began around 3 a.m. EST on Oct. 20 and was rooted in its US-EAST-1 Region , which is based in Northern Virginia , according to AWS.

The cloud computing service said it believes the outage was caused by an underlying issue with DNS , or domain name systems, which helps translate website names into IP addresses.

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