The internet kicked off the week the way that many of us want to: by refusing to go to work. An outage at Amazon Web Services rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable on Monday. Sites and services including Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo, the PlayStation Network and, predictably, Amazon, were unavailable off and on through the start of the day.

The outage began shortly after midnight PT, and took Amazon around three and a half hours to fully resolve. Social networks and streaming services were among the 2,000-plus companies affected, and critical services such as online banking were also taken down.

As of 12:15 p.m. PT, Amazon said it continued to see recovery across all AWS services. The company said customers who use AWS Lambda , a compute service that that runs code without t

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