A problem with Amazon’s cloud computing service crashed large swaths of the internet Monday, including government sites, social media, gaming, streaming, universities, financial platforms and more.

Issues with sites were reported early Monday, and Amazon Web Service, one of a handful of companies that handles much of the world’s internet technology, stated they were starting to recover about three hours after the outage began.

AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure numerous large organizations across the world. The company said the outage was related to its domain name system that converts web addresses into IP addresses.

For these kinds of issues, “a slow and bumpy recovery process” is “entirely normal,” according to cybersecurty expert Mike Chapple.

“It’s simil

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