Several websites, such as Snapchat, Ring, and Fortnite, were disrupted as Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage in the early morning hours of Oct. 20.

The cloud computing service's outage began around 3 a.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 20, and was rooted in its US-EAST-1 Region , which is based in Northern Virginia , according to AWS.

Users reported issues with several large platforms via the outage-tracking website Downdetector . Financial apps such as Venmo and OnePay, as well as telecom networks such as Verizon and AT&T, are among the sites experiencing problems.

AWS said it believes the outage was caused by an underlying issue with DNS , or domain name systems, which helps translate website names into IP addresses.

Here are some of the websites that experienced d

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