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Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world.
According to the AWS service health page, Amazon was looking into "increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services" in the US-EAST-1 region (i.e. data centers in Northern Virginia) as of 3:11AM ET on Monday.
Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.
A status page for Amazon's cloud unit showed more than 80 of its services and features were affected early Monday.