An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

Widespread internet outages were reported early on Monday, taking down popular services including Snapchat, Fortnite and Roblox, as Amazon Web Services said there was an issue they were working to mitigate.

Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage — and the global disruption it caused — underscored just how reliant the internet has become on a small number of core infrastructure providers.

When a technical issue disrupted operations at those facilities yesterday, it was enough to temporarily crash the internet for users around the world. The modern web owes that fragility in part to the cloud.

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,

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.

AT&T Inc. added more mobile phone and home internet subscribers this summer than analysts expected, amid a heavy promotional push to keep competitive pressure on its two main rivals.

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