(NewsNation) — Monday's massive Amazon Web Services outage sent ripples across the internet that could have a long-lasting global impact and a price tag in the billions.

The official financial impact is unknown as of yet, but the hourslong outage stalled many of the world's most frequently used online services.

It was the largest internet disruption since last year's Crowdstrike outage, which affected millions of Windows devices and caused about $5 billion in losses.

AWS outage downs social media, websites, school systems

AWS, a cloud computing provider, serves as a backbone for many major companies as well as state and local governments.

From social media and food delivery apps to financial and streaming services, the outage was felt on every corner of the internet. Some college camp

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