* AWS outage affects major websites and apps globally * Issue originated in US site known for outages * Service improved, then problems recurred before recovery * Gaming and financial platforms among those impacted by AWS issue (Updates to reinstate, no change to text.) By Greg Bensinger, Shubham Kalia and Deborah Mary Sophia SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20 (Reuters) – Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit. Still, Amazon said some AWS services had a backlog of messages that would take a few hours to process. AWS hosts applications and computer processes for companies around the world, and the disru

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