Closed on Sundays, Maha Juice Bar banks on big business Monday mornings. But at the downtown Norwood, Massachusetts spot known for açaí bowls and smoothies, this Monday was anything but smooth due to issues with Amazon Web Services.

"Today Toast was offline all day. It still is. We lost hundreds of orders, not just this location but all the other locations," explained owner Marcieli Pastorio. "Even the credit card machine was offline. All the orders are going to be batched when it comes back online. We don't know when we're going to receive the credit card orders that went through today."

The health food restaurant, with locations in Cambridge and Franklin, was one of the many, many victims of a massive outage across Amazon Web Services - which acts as a backbone for much of the inte

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