Users reported outages with Snapchat, WhatsApp, Signal and Zoom, as well as Google and YouTube. AWS said the underlying issue had been fully resolved.

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including Fortnite and Snapchat.

Amazon Web Services' cloud services global outage disrupted service for companies and individual users on Monday. A half day later covereaged mainly recovered.

Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.

About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem, although problems lingered for some users. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world’s biggest organizations.

Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year's CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports.

The company said its systems have recovered after ​​​disruptions affected services from major retailers, airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more​.