Here’s what to know about the global outage and what has been impacted: Many of the apps and websites affected by outages use AWS, an Internet-based cloud service for the tech giant Amazon. AWS first reported “increased error rates and latencies” across a number of its services in the early hours of Monday morning.

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AWS experienced an Outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20, that downed more than a dozen websites. What happened?

Internet users across the globe suffered disruption as a result of a widespread outage that hit dozens of major websites and apps using Amazon Web Services. Sites including Facebook, Snapchat, Amazon and Roblox appeared to be down early Monday,