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.

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 were gradually coming back online as of 6am ET (9pm AEDT on Monday), with AWS saying it was seeing "significant signs of recovery" for some affected services.

"Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests," it said in the latest update on the ou

See Full Page