Slack, Snapchat, Signal and Perplexity were some of the affected apps and websites, among a host of big names. AWS offers cloud servers that allow these services, and millions of other websites and platforms, to run. AWS is a cloud-computing platform that provides the infrastructure underpinning much of the internet.

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for

Shortly after 3 p.m. PT (2200 GMT), Amazon said, "all AWS services returned to normal operations. Some services such as AWS Config, Redshift, and Connect continue to have a backlog of messages that they will finish processing over the next few hours."

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A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

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