Amazon’s cloud arm is still struggling to recover after a major cloud services outage impacted the likes of Canva, Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon and other companies globally, including in Australia, affecting millions of users and effectively bringing the internet to a standstill.

The issue began at about 6pm AEDT on Monday and is related to Amazon Web Services – tech giant Amazon’s cloud services arm – and the AWS status checker showed that multiple services were “impacted” by operational issues.

Within hours, more than 6.5 million reports flooded outage tracker Downdetector from more than 1000 affected companies globally, making it one of the largest cloud infrastructure failures in recent history. AWS controls roughly 30 per cent of the global cloud market, with Microsoft and Google ho

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