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An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald’s app.

But just what is AWS? AWS is a widely used cloud platform that offers more than 200 services including cloud-based computing power, storage and databases for IT infrastructure.

WLWT's Kelly Rippin explains what to know about the service, and how it connects to other companies.

For a full explanation on what AWS is and does, click here .

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