Amazon said its cloud computing service was recovering from a major outage that disrupted online activity around the world on Monday.

The service provides remote computing services to many apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.

On Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users reported issues with Amazon Alexa, Amazon Prime, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood, the McDonald's app and many others.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on the site where it provides updates that services in its eastern U.S. region were disrupted and engineers were working to understand what was causing the problem.

But at 5:27 a.m. EDT, AWS began reporting progress, saying, "We are seeing significant signs of recovery."

A little more than a half-hour later,

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