LONDON — Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms.

The all-day disruption and the ensuing exasperation it caused served as the latest reminder that 21st century society is increasingly dependent on just a handful of companies for much of its internet technology, which seems to work reliably until it suddenly breaks down .

About three hours after the outage began early Monday morning, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover , but it wasn't until 6 p.m. Eastern that “services returned to normal operations,” Amazon said on its AWS he

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