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Monday morning got off to a chaotic start as a global internet outage linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS) took down hundreds of websites and apps, including major services used by New Yorkers daily such as Venmo, Snapchat, McDonald’s, and Delta Air Lines.

The disruption began shortly after 3 am EST, when AWS–Amazon’s massive cloud computing network that powers much of the internet–experienced a failure in one of its main U.S. data centers.

By 7 am, reports of outages were flooding Downdetector.com , which tracks internet disruptions, with more than 6.5 million user reports worldwide and over 1 million in the U.S. alone.

By early afternoon, Amazon said it had “fully mitigated” the outage and was “seeing signs of recovery.”

However, some services continued to experience de

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