AWS from Amazon competes with Google's and Microsoft's cloud services. Photo: AP PHOTO

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS is recovering from a widespread outage that knocked out thousands of websites along with some of the world's most popular apps - Snapchat and Reddit - and disrupted businesses globally.

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The turmoil marked the largest internet disruption since last year's CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, and highlights the vulnerability of the world's interconnected technologies.

After roughly three hours of disruptions, systems w

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