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Amazon Web Services outage caused major global disruptions

Apps like Snapchat , Roblox , and Signal went offline

Issue linked to AWS domain name system malfunction

Service recovery began about three hours after the outage started

Internet users around the world faced widespread disruption early on Monday because of a problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service that took down dozens of major online services, including social media site Snapchat, the Roblox and Fortnite video games and chat app Signal.

About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem.

Amazon Web Services provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to many government departments, universities and businesses, including

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