A major cloud computing service went offline early Monday, causing problems for thousands of websites and services including leading retailers, publishers and games.

Amazon Web Services first reported a problem at 12:11 a.m. PT (3:11 a.m. ET) and said it was dealing with an "operational issue" affecting 14 different services in its center in northern Virginia.

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"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," the AWS health dashboard said. The message had not been updated as of 4 a.m. ET.

"We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause," the dashboard said.

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